"Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm."

-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Fighting Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Justice Quotes

“New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.”

Source : Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag
“Before you can move in new directions, you must first let go of what's not working for you.”
“I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.”
“We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.”
“It takes two hands to clap.”
“I'm a bit of a romantic.”
“If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.”
“If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.”

Source : William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin”, p.337

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