Order Conditions

Famous quotes containing the words order and/or conditions:

“Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)