Baroque Period

Famous quotes containing the words baroque and/or period:

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)