System Reply

Famous quotes containing the words system and/or reply:

“[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)

“Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in everything.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)