"The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal."

-- Chris Hedges

#Pain Quotes #Betrayal Quotes #Dark Quotes

“The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.”
“I wanted to build up a name for myself.”

Source : Jean Michel Basquiat, Rudy Chiappini (2005). “Basquiat”, Museo D'Arte Moderna Citta Di Lugano
“The art of communication is the language of leadership.”
“The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.”

Source : "The World's Great Speeches". Book edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, 1958.
“Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.”
“I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.”
“Is there something inside of you that is favoring peace? Because if there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached, and felt, your most fundamental want.”
“I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. That we are not tragedies stranded here beneath it.”

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