"I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses."

-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Photography Quotes #Men Quotes #Choices Quotes

“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”

Source : James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster
“Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.”
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.”
“Give until tears stream down your eyes.”
“I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.”
“Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night”
“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.”
“As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the â€œsacredness of human lifeâ€ remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.”

Source : Leon Trotsky, Slavoj Žižek, Henry Noel Brailsford (2007). “Terrorism and communism: a reply to Karl Kautsky”, Verso Books

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