"I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it."

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Source : George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

George Grosz

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“We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.”

Source : William Jenkyn, James Sherman (1839). “An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London”, p.224
“Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts circulate within a group, their commerce leaves a series of interconnected relationships in its wake, and a kind of decentralized cohesiveness emerges.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.20, Vintage
“We have in us a divine spark that you can see. It's a Light that shines in the human being. It's our direct access to truth, our direct access to God. The purpose of all the spiritual practices that exist are to awaken that sparkto give it life, to give it energy, so that it can transform you. One of the energies that comes from that spark is Love.”
“The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.”
“I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up those unconscious, instinctual urges that you then have to deal with. I'm like a Frankenstein of analysis. I'm able to go back and forth between the world I've created inside of myself and the real world, which is something I think a lot of people who write and paint and make art do.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon,”
“A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.”
“I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that connects us as humans. We're looking for the same sorts of contentment in our lives and while some people are searching a little harder than others, we're not all that different.”

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