Famous quotes containing the words van, august, september, power and/or struggle:
“Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)
“On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“We who didn’t inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyse the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)