Patrick Curry > Quotes

“Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.”
― Patrick Curry, Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity – Essential Literary Criticism on Spirit, Ecology, and Ethics for Fans

“Other major challenges include the redefinition of work as a contribution to the good of all, as opposed to merely being a matter of pure self- advancement.”
― Patrick Curry, Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide

“what size and complexity do … is to multiply the opportunities for citizen involvement and action.”
― Patrick Curry, Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide

“If you exclude the people from participation, marginalize them, threaten their identity and nationhood, you will inevitably get sabotage and a conservative response.”
― Patrick Curry, Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide

“One can save one’s soul, or one can found or maintain or serve a great and glorious state; but not always both at once.”
― Patrick Curry, Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide

“Thus his music has gone, as he says, ‘from being about place to becoming place.’55 In doing so, it has fulfilled his wish in the semantic meaning of enchantment, ‘to be in a song’: ‘I no longer want to be outside the music, listening to it as an object apart. I want to inhabit the music, to be fully present and listening …’56”
― Patrick Curry, Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works

“what did we expect when, even in so-called democratic countries, we have become so selfish and passive, letting factions of tiny, powerful and unaccountable elites dominate both politics and economics? That applies to most leading political parties, even in democracies, whose overriding concerns usually seem to be getting re-elected and protecting big business.”
― Patrick Curry, Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide