"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country."

-- John Burns

#Country Quotes #Depressing Quotes #Brutality Quotes

“The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.”
“Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.”

Source : Joan Simon, William Wegman (2006). “William Wegman: Funney/strange”, p.210, Yale University Press
“I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.”
“If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now.”
“The first step to problem solving is figuring out who's got the problem.”
“If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times.”

Source : Oskar Schlemmer, Tut Schlemmer (1990). “The Letters and Diaries of Oskar Schlemmer”
“As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.”
“Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.”

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