1980 Quotes

“What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.”
― Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New

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Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be. ”
― Archbishop Oscar Romero

“If I die this instant will you be more content with the morning news? Will your coffee taste better? I am not your fate. I am not your government…I am not your mother, not your father or your nightmare or your health. I am not a fence, not a wall. I am not the law or actuarial tables of your insurance broker. I am a woman with my guts loose in my hands, howling and it’s not because I committed hari-kiri. I suggest either you cook me or sew me back up. I suggest you walk into my pain as into the breaking waves of an ocean of blood, and either we will climb out together and walk away.”
― Marge Piercy, The Moon Is Always Female: Poems

“It's telepathy, over.”
― Flash Gordon

“…ours is a world about which we pretend to have more and more information but which seems to us increasingly devoid of meaning.”
― Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!”
― Morrissey

“Tonight Must Last Us Forever”
― Paul Stanley

“The first generation of cell phone towers were deployed in the 1980’s. In the 2020’s, we are now seeing the long term effects of adult exposure to radio frequency radiation in the over sixty population.”
― Steven Magee