"All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that."

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Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

John Boorman

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Upset Quotes

“For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.”
“The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.”
“Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.”
“The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.”
“Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time we have devoted to our spiritual practice. The diary should be written in a way that helps us see our mistakes and correct them. It should not be a mere document of other peoples' faults or our daily transactions.”
“Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.”

Source : George F. Kennan (2013). “Encounter with Kennan: The Great Debate”, p.208, Routledge
“An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.”
“It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.”

Source : Charlas de Cafe

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