Silly Roll Call

Famous quotes containing the words silly, roll and/or call:

“If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigour as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honour of our wives and daughters?”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)

“Rock ‘n’ roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.”
—Greil Marcus (b. 1945)

““State,” I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; “state,” where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; “state,” where they all call their slow suicide—”life.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)