“Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective”
Arundhati Roy
“For the peace activists, they are good, symbolic results. They can use them to impress people with how widespread opposition is. But they're misleading as far as aggregate public opinion. It's an April election, which has very low turnout. So as a public opinion specialist, I have to point out how unrepresentative highly motivated voters are in an April election.”
Charles Franklin
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
Oscar Wilde
“Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.”
Mark Twain
“I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.”
George Carlin
“Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
