Negative Real Interest

Famous quotes containing the words negative, real and/or interest:

    “Our role is to support anything positive in black life and destroy anything negative that touches it. You have no other reason for being. I don’t understand art for art’s sake. Art is the guts of the people.”
    —Elma Lewis (b. 1921)

    “Patience, to hear frivolous, impertinent, and unreasonable applications: with address enough to refuse, without offending; or, by your manner of granting, to double the obligation: dexterity enough to conceal a truth, without telling a lie: sagacity enough to read other people’s countenances: and serenity enough not to let them discover anything by yours; a seeming frankness, with a real reserve. These are the rudiments of a politician; the world must be your grammar.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)