There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
John LindsayAbout author
- Author's profession: Politician
- Nationality: american
- Born: November 24, 1921
- Died: December 19, 2000
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
![Mark Twain quote: "What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman?..."](/pic/140101/600x316/quotation-mark-twain-what-sir-would-the-people-of-the-earth-be-without.jpg)
![Ice Cube quote: "I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little..."](/pic/161295/600x316/quotation-ice-cube-i-was-ready-to-get-out-of-the-box-and-play-something-a.jpg)
![Christopher Morley quote: "There is only one success: to be able to spend life in your..."](/pic/255679/600x316/quotation-christopher-morley-there-is-only-one-success-to-be-able-to.jpg)
![Meg Cabot quote: "You know what you sound like? A jealous girl friend. And how..."](/pic/260278/600x316/quotation-meg-cabot-you-know-what-you-sound-like-a-jealous-girl-friend.jpg)
![Larry David quote: "I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know..."](/pic/174332/600x316/quotation-larry-david-ive-been-in-therapy-i-know-enough-about-myself.jpg)
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy...
J. M. Coetzee