"...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings."

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Arno Gruen

#Roots Quotes #Evil Quotes #Elements Quotes

“The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.”
“A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.”
“O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.”
“You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.”
“Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.”
“So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.”
“I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.”

Source : Albert Renger-Patzsch, Donald Burton Kuspit, J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). “Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object”, Getty Publications
“It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.”

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