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He reduced everything to politics; he was also unalterably of the Left. His line may have been unpopular or unfashionable, but he followed it unhesitatingly; in fact it was an obsession. He could not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
cyril connolly— On his friend, George Orwell, in The Sunday Times (1968-09-29); reprinted in The Evening Colonnade (New York, 1973)
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 458 (15 August 1712).
The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off-chance that it is in another direction a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unfashionable point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.
richard feynman— "The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics," Nobel Lecture (11 December 1965)
What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other art forms, most notably, the European novel and certain forms on English drama, and indeed, in relation to my rather academic interest in history -- not "history" in the normal sense, but history as a form of entertainment . It might be a very unfashionable view but I believe that history is an amazing bank or reserve area of plots, characterisations, extraordinary events, etc.
Peter Greenaway— From an interview in Art and Design, no. 49
Yes, we have to get economics back into proportion, as one aspect of politics, important but never really the main thing. This may be unfashionable, indeed anti-fashionable, because it is the current intellectual fashions which have wrought so much havoc in this country.
keith joseph— Speech at Birmingham, 19 October 1974; Margaret Thatcher website
