"I've spent eight years in Congress avoiding moral language. I represent a swing district. I believe profoundly in not challenging the motives of your opponents. But more and more, we're in a world where leaders have to speak up, and speak in strong moral terms."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

Jim Himes

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“The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.”
“For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.”
“Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.”

Source : Yolande Racine, Betty Goodwin, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Art Gallery of Ontario (1987). “Betty Goodwin: oeuvres de 1971 à 1987”, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal = Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
“Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!”
“I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.”
“A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.”
“The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.”

Source : "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.”

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