"You are a victim of the rules you live by."

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Source : Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

Jenny Holzer

#Victim Quotes #Live By Quotes

“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.”

Source : Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.14, Souvenir Press
“One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.”
“I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more powerful idea of what is, or could be photographic.”
“I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I’m on my way.”
“Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.”
“My sister wanted a cat for a pet... I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.”
“The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.”
“A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.”

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