Famous quotes containing the words master and/or pendulum:
“Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering—that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)