"Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy"

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Source : David Joselit, Joan Simon, Renata Salecl, Jenny Holzer (1998). “Jenny Holzer”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

Jenny Holzer

#Hands Quotes #Weapons Quotes #Messy Quotes

“A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.”
“I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.”
“If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.”
“It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.”
“I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.”
“There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these people can possibly spend. They have to concoct asinine ways to spend it, like advertising for new food stamp users. I've gotten to the point, I'm just so righteously indignant and offended at the very idea that our government could ever run out of money when we've got a printing press, for crying out loud. Printed three and a half trillion dollars over seven years and flooded Wall Street with it.”
“We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.”

Source : Gustave Le Bon (1960). “Psychologie des foules”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.”

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