John Boynton Priestley citáty
John Boynton Priestley
Dátum narodenia: 13. september 1894
Dátum úmrtia: 14. august 1984
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John Boynton Priestley bol anglický prozaik, novinár a literárny kritik. Jeho tvorba sa vyznačovala vtipom a humorom, ktoré vystihli ducha vtedajšej doby. Wikipedia
Citáty John Boynton Priestley
„Ľudia nie sú horší než boli. Iba spravodajstvo o ich činoch je dôkladnejšie.“
Varianta: Ľudia nie sú horší, ako boli predtým. Iba spravodajstvo o ich činoch je teraz dôkladnejšie.
„We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.“
— J.B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls
Zdroj: An Inspector Calls
„Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.“
"The Disillusioned", in The Balconinny, and Other Essays ([1929] 1969) p. 30.
„We cannot go forward and build up this new world order, and this is our war aim, unless we begin to think differently…one must stop thinking in terms of property and power and begin thinking in terms of community and creation. Property is the old-fashioned way of thinking of a country as a thing, and a collection of things in that thing, all owned by certain people and constituting property; instead of thinking of a country as the home of a living society with the community itself as the first test.“
BBC Radio Broadcast, July 21, 1940. Reprinted in Priestley, Postscripts, William Heinemann Limited, 1940, and All England Listened: The Wartime Broadcasts of J.B. Priestley, Chilmark Press, 1968.
„Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.“
International Herald Tribune, January 3, 1978.
„Remember what we once were and what we thought we'd be. And now this. And it's all we have, Allan, it's us. Every step we've taken -- every tick of the clock -- making everything worse. If this is all life is, what's the use? Better to die, like carol, before you find it out, before Time gets to work on you. I've felt it before, Allan, but never as I've done tonight. There's a great devil in the universe, and we call it Time.“
— J.B. Priestley, Time and the Conways
Time and the Conways, p. 59-60.
„But the point is, now, at this moment, or at any moment, we're only a cross-section of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us -- the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.“
— J.B. Priestley, Time and the Conways
Time and the Conways, p. 60.
„In plain words; now that Britain has told the world she has the H-Bomb, she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject, in all circumstances, nuclear warfare. This is not pacifism. There is no suggestion here of abandoning the immediate defence of this island... No, what should be abandoned is the idea of deterrence-by-threat-of-retaliation. There is no real security in it, no decency in it, no faith, hope, nor charity in it.“
"Britain and the Nuclear Bombs", The New Statesman, 2 November 1957. This article led to the creation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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