"The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace."

-- Barry McGee

#Museums Quotes #Graffiti Quotes #Embrace Quotes

“Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.”

Source : "Scoop : An Historical Adventure" by James H. Walters, (p. 32), 2006.
“In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.”
“I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.”
“The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.”
“The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilisation, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilisation there is always an element of unrest. For sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilised order survives on its merits, and is transformed by its power of Recognizing its imperfections.”
“You canâ€™t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you canâ€™t change peopleâ€™s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.”
“I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.”

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