Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
Quote by Doris Lessing
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
- My father was in the First World War.
- For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
- When there's a war, people get married.
- You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
- The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
- What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
- Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
- Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
Best Quotes
- While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
- Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
- What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
- I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.
- Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
- Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
- I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
- Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
- I've always been a bit of a car freak.
- Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.