A.P. Herbert Quotes
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.
We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.
