"A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own"

-- Jay Griffiths

#Creatures Quotes #Subjects Quotes

“I try to teach a modernist and postmodernist position. On one hand, if you're a painter, you need to know the history of painting. But I'm also interested in the moment we live in. I love television, and movies, and books, and music. So I also think of art as this cultural production along with all this other stuff that's happening. So that's a kind of postmodern, not media-specific, but the times, what is your art relevant to this moment we live in versus media specificity? That's my teaching philosophy, both of those things are important.”
“Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.”
“It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too, and in a society where all people have equal rights, that means all people should make decisions equally. ... This doesn't mean that we're changing God's law, It just means we're reinterpreting laws according to the development of science - and the realities of the times.”

Source : "Iran at the Millenium, by Robin Wright". Excerpt from The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (2001), www.pbs.org.
“I like to start my day off every morning, take the first half hour and just search my own heart, see if I'm on the right course, try to be honest with myself - am I doing this for the right reasons?”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.”
“Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.”
“If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.”
“The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we are the most un-free society, in terms of institutions of the deprivation of liberty, of incarceration. The incidents of incarceration is higher in the United States than elsewhere in the world.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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