Famous quotes containing the words lists, domain and/or names:
“Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)
“In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”
—Karl Marx (18181883)
“The pangs of conscience, where are the pangs of conscience? Orestes and Clytemnestra, Reinhold doesnt even know the names of those fine folk. He simply hopes, heartily and sincerely, that Franz is dead as a doornail and wont be found.”
—Alfred Döblin (18781957)