The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.
Theodore ZeldinWe should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.
Theodore ZeldinForks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did
Theodore ZeldinThe brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.
Theodore Zeldin