Famous quotes containing the words reading and/or rage:
“For aesthetics is the mother of ethics.... Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe—not empirically, alas, but only theoretically—that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)
“The foolish race of mankind
Are swarming below in the night;
They shriek and rage and quarrel—
And all of them are right.”
—Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)