Quote #200
Closed eyes listen, afraid to see on their own. Easily influenced and simply conformed.
More from Oscar Wilde
- Charity creates a multitude of sins.
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninte…
- Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
- High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.