In Other Words

 

 

Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis, former First Lady

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we’ve made it. —Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis, former First Lady

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we’ve made it. —Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis, former First Lady

 

Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? —Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? —Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

 

Walter Benjamin, German critic

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. —Walter Benjamin, German critic

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. —Walter Benjamin, German critic

 

Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

 

Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

 

Carrie Chapman Catt, American activist

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. —Carrie Chapman Catt, American activist

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. —Carrie Chapman Catt, American activist

 

Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

When Megdar was killed, I came back from Chicago and couldn’t go inside the airport in Jackson, Mississippi. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

When Megdar was killed, I came back from Chicago and couldn’t go inside the airport in Jackson, Mississippi. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

 

Nancy Reagan, former First Lady

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out. —Nancy Reagan, former First Lady

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out. —Nancy Reagan, former First Lady

 

David Hockney, British artist

Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. —David Hockney, British artist

Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. —David Hockney, British artist

 

Walter Benjamin, German critic

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. —Walter Benjamin, German critic

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. —Walter Benjamin, German critic

 

Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

 

Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist