Pastoral Resources

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.