"Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general."

-- Raoul Vaneigem

#Eye Quotes #Law Quotes #Negative Quotes

“A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.”
“The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.”
“It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.”
“Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else.”

Source : Frederick H. Evans, Anne Hammond (1992). “Frederick H. Evans: selected texts and bibliography”
“I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.”

Source : "Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.
“All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.”
“The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits”
“If two actors have an equal creative give and take between them, it translates beautifully on the screen.”

Source : "Ranbir-Deepika must work together again: Karan Johar" by Hiren Kotwani, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. May 27, 2013.

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