It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of … - Joseph Brodsky

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There were many Americans in the Revolutionary era who believed that they, like the children of Israel, were oppressed by their colonial rulers, and they looked to God for deliverance from the tyranny of their pharaoh, George III.

Joseph Brodsky

It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply the most focused form of the demands on the evolution of the species. It imposes a certain responsibility, moral, ethical and esthetic responsibility, and the species simply doesn't want to oblige.

Decision, Demands, Literature, Responsibility, Simply

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Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe. . . that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

Believe, Grief, Harder, Political, Reading, Shoot

When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

Body, Eye, Failing, Ugliness

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Delight, Delightful, Everyone, Friend, Friendship, People

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Evil, Extreme, Feigned, Happiness, Thinking

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

Criminal Mind, Darkness, Light, Repair, Restores