1906 in Organized Crime - Arts and Literature

Famous quotes containing the words arts and literature, arts and, arts and/or literature:

“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept.... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

“Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward fame and fortune have resounded throughout literature and in the texts of history, biology, and psychology until they seem uncontestable. Such dichotomous views defy the complexities of individuals and stifle the potential for people to reveal different dimensions of themselves in various settings.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)