"...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Power Quotes #Void Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
“Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.”
“It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.”
“This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.65, Graywolf Press
“No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution.”
“If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.”
“If neuroscientific research shows that those mechanisms only contain comparative information about colour differences, and have 'thrown away' more fine-grained information about the absolute colours of single surfaces, then that would support my position, in a way that just introspecting our colour experiences can't.”
“For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?”

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