National Camp Meeting

Famous quotes containing the words national, camp and/or meeting:

“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

“Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century’s surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us,—something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)