Many of my artistic endeavors in some
way illustrate a concept, criticism, or reflection of a religious
idea, or narrative. These works are mostly done in a black
and white, dualistic contrasting composition. Partly illustrating
the concept's assinged dualism, and institutionalism. Also
illustrating the weaponized meanings assigned to a story by
the unnecessary organization of religious belief. For religion
at its purest has no need of organization. It is an individual
choice, and an individual belief. The heard mentality is the
program of the Drone.
The mainstream relies on power in numbers
and the sedation effect of the Drone program: The institutionally
determined ideas that are advertised and spread throughout
society. These are nothing more than what religions decree
to be justified or moral, and what corporations and conglomerates
dictate to be cool or beautiful, or to be valuble, to be life,
to be art. They feed on believers and consumers; and believers
and consumers feed off of them. These programs live off of
one another, and they will continue to do so as long as one
has the other.
This assignment by some of what should
be done by all is a medieval concept to me. Have we not yet
reached a higher level of conceptual evolution since the dark
ages? These choices are our own to make for our lives, no
one else's! No one religion, or one philosophy should determines
one's life! No one book has all the answers, but some of them
have great ideas. And a lot of them have horrible ideas. All
can be distorted, and all can be learned from. All one needs
is the freedom to do so, to choose for one-self. I choose
liberty. I decide to constantly develop my own ideas. I prefer
freedom and life to worship and judgment. I choose reason
and science over belief and faith. I strive to achieve Art,
rather than art.
We are all of us free, not all of us
realize it...
Organized Religion can prove to be the
downfall of humanity. It will end us lest it be ended. What
was for an instant a good idea for positivistic thought, organization
and belief has become an intellectual nightmare of programming
and institutional determinacy. A concept based on completely
non-tangible or provable phenomenon that has determined how
millions will treat their fellow humans. It is a weapon of
control, prejudice, hatred, fear and power. Just like any
other organized syndicate.
Drones bow to it on their knees as believers. They are believers
because they fear not to believe. Hence the nomenclature,
“God-Fearing.” An entire ontological existence
based on the fear of a father over his children. The fear
of divine punishment. “Do as I say or spend eternity
in HELL!” so says the Lord. Only Drones are convinced
to believe in such things. Only Drones would think to judge
another person based on what the name of his/her god is, or
the color of his/her skin, or the music one listens too. Labels
are given by drones to stigmatize the liberated minds of the
free. Any belief system that forces persons to worship that
institution on one’s knees has no place in the ontology
of the free mind. It is not humility that brings them to their
knees. It is fear.
Some enlightened few, (less the Drone and more the user of
reason) will find their happiness and positive life through
religious outlets. But I would argue that majority of them
would agree with my following position. Belief in the supernatural,
metaphysical or spiritual realm is not necessary to achieve
happiness. It is not necessary for the proper treatment of
fellow humans, we have evolved beyond it. We can learn from
these philosophies, we must not become them.
Christian military garbed in black
Like priests, like bibles
Vacant uniforms decorated with gilded crosses
Showing their inept asceticism
Merits and rewards and accommodations
Such is the crusade
Glory from strife, genocide and warfare
At once destroying hearts and minds
And twice instilling codes and rituals
Enforced by the hammer of the church
Such is the history and the future
Have to celebrate the death of life
Have to celebrate the cost of strife
Make yourself know to kill
Prove to them you want to and will
The ball the chain it drags us all
Fall from grace
Leave this place
Alone from hell
Alone from life
Heaven is silence
Hades is freedom
Appalling is the justice of man
Frightening is the existence of belief
Belief, a system for the weak
Faith, a punishment of the children
Believe in my God or you will never be moral
Believe in my God or you will never be happy
Believe in a higher power or you have a problem
Everything happens for a reason, the ultimate cliché
Virgins and paradise if you strap this to your back
No one can ever name the reason
Gypsies and fortunetellers at best a grift
Feed and earn livings off the stupidity and ignorance of drones.
Or is it the bliss and happiness
the pleasure of controlling another's pain
False happy
Inner sad
Unsatisfied Holy
Radicalist
—You cannot hide from our government's
decisions any longer. All are now effected. The following
are some current personal observations...
The following are a few examples illustrating
the quality of our elected leadership. Very soon, this nation
will have the opportunity to once again vote for the icon
of America. Mr. Obama's critics enjoy harping on his "inexperience"
of office. Sighting that such an inexperienced politician
would not hold the office of president with great success.
Basically that he would fail to handle the position. Fail
being the operative term. What does it truly mean to fail?
Fail compared to what exactly? To this? Posative change is
on the horizon.
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at
the same level of thinking with which we created them."
- Albert Einstein
A new way of thinking... A new progressive society... A new
equality for all... A new leader of The United States of America...
A Neo~Renaissance.
"Vive la resistenza..."
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for
taking things for granted."
- Aldous Huxley
Do not take you democratic rights for granted. This is your
country. Vote at all costs, especially when some would tell
you how pointless they deem it to be. They merely fear responsibility.
They take freedom for granted.
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable
on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive."
- Thomas Jefferson
Resistance is inherent in the American historical model. Those
few, who have in the past been willing to resist abusive powers
in the name of righteousness, and reist to whatever end. These
are the boat rockers that true history will remember, the
social catalysts. No one ever changed anything by going along
with the status quo. "Status quo" is the name of
the Drone's programming. Change is the constant requirement
of the aesthetic paradigm. To question is to learn, to learn
is to change, to change is to be evolving at all times.
" Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history,
is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion
that progress has been made."
- Oscar Wilde
The time now is critical. At the end
of this year, options will befall us that effect the existence
of the world. Not merely the obvious environmental catastrophe
we as a species have managed to achieve. But the way societies
within society choose to live and treat each other.
Will hatred be promoted, even amended to the constitution
of this country? Or will the people raise their own voices,
their own fists, and their own flags and cry out for change,
for true equality. Cry out for freedom from those institutions
that would have them beg for the unexplainable, for the unattainable.
The leader of this country sits high upon a throne of images,
perceptions and criticism. How will our new leader face the
world? Will he or she be the iconoclastic leader we need?
Will he or she be a person willing to cause actual significant
change, viable social evolution? Or will this new leader perpetuate
the decadence this country is drowning in.?
They all may say their intentions and plans revolve around
these very issues, but which one will you believe? What do
you want history to say about this country and these times?
Which version of history will be ours? Will this generation
be the renaissance of the American narrative? It will be,
if we as a people so choose it to be.
To me November 11th is one of the only meaningful holidays
in existence. No religion or superstition involved. No obligation
to worship, or to punish oneself with fasting. A day of humanity,
grounded in reality, evident in mud and the blood of history.
It is a day of remembrance for those who served, and/or died
so that others would not have to. So that others would live
on with the freedom and peace this world needs to survive.
If you know, or happen to meet a veteran today, thank them.
Give them a firm handshake and look them in the eye when you
do. So they may understand the sincere appreciation and gratitude
you have for their lives, and their sacrifices.
On this, Election Day +1, the Democratic Party has seized
control of both houses of congress. It has been a grueling
12 years of the Republican status quo and we welcome the change.
It's a miracle that it has lasted this long to begin with.
Sometimes things have to get so bad, the reality is unavoidable.
Even to the most ignorant of the population. I would like
to see more people come out to vote for these elections but
at least the ones who did come out voted for change. The obvious
cautions still reside in me. Capitalism and Power does and
will corrupt. I do not care your title, affiliation, or ideology.
If history is any guide, there will be no shortage of material
for comedians and news anchors to pull complaints and criticisms
from. And I accept that. I just hope that this newly controlled
congress limits their dirty dealings to greed, instead of
years of war and bloodshed. They can start winning me over
by bringing our soldiers back home, where they can and will
be our military again, instead of right-wing's mercenary force.
War is a national engagement, not a private one. If the old
white rich are going to talk and the young poor are going
to die, more than a fossil fuel and imperialism should be
the reason. A larger percentage of the country may have been
behind a war that actually stopped killing in the long term,
not increased it exponentially.
Quotationary Lyric
"If you consider what are called the virtues in
mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education
and cultivation."
-Xenophon Greek general & historian (434 BC - 355 BC)
"In war, truth is the first casualty."
-Aeschylus Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC)
"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny."
-Aeschylus, Agamemnon Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456
BC)
"Time as he grows old teaches all things."
-Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC
- 456 BC)
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who
maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
-Dante Alighieri Italian national epic poet (1265 - 1321)
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"
-Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Italian national epic
poet (1265 - 1321)
"There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the
happy time In misery."
-Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Italian national epic
poet (1265 - 1321)
"Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth."
-Archimedes, 300 B.C. Greek inventor, mathematician, &
physicist (287 BC - 212 BC)
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:
chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
-Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist
(384 BC - 322 BC)
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain
a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle Greek critic,
philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
-Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist
(384 BC - 322 BC)
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
-Aristotle Ethics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, &
zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
"All men by nature desire knowledge."
-Aristotle, Metaphysics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist,
& zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
"A state is not a mere society, having a common place,
established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the
sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of
noble actions, and not of mere companionship."
-Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist,
& zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC )
"The basis of a democratic state is liberty."
-Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist,
& zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
"The best political community is formed by citizens of
the middle class."
- Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist,
& zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager
man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a
book to read."
-GK Chesterton
"Never tell anyone that you're: writing a book, going
on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking.
They'll encourage you to death."
-Lynn Johnston
"virtu: love of or taste for fine objects of art; also,
productions of art.virtu: love of or taste for fine objects
of art; also, productions of art.Not to be absolutely certain
is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."
-Bertrand Russell
"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint,
something inside always reminds or informs you that there
are bigger and better things to worry about."
-Albert Einstein
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into
the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
-Jean-Paul Sartre French author & existentialist philosopher
(1905 - 1980)
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of
our life, the clearer we should see through it."
-Jean-Paul Sartre French author & existentialist philosopher
(1905 - 1980)
"Existence precedes and rules essence."
Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943) -French author
& existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980)
"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die."
-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) act
1 French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980)
"To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe
is not to believe."
-Jean-Paul Sartre French author & existentialist philosopher
(1905 - 1980)
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible
for what we are - that is the fact."
-Jean-Paul Sartre French author & existentialist philosopher
(1905 - 1980)
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized
life."
-Immanuel Kant German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion." -Thomas Paine US patriot
& political philosopher (1737 - 1809)
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from
distress, and grows brave by reflection."
-Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737
- 1809)
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of
reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
-Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737
- 1809 )
"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it
asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing".
-Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737
- 1809)
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish,
Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions,
set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power
and profit."
-Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737
- 1809)
"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be
foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
-Peter Ustinov English actor & author (1921 - 2004)
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty
loses interest in students."
-John Ciardi US poet (1916 - 1986)
"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the way of peace: "Overcome evil with good, falsehood
with truth, and hatred with love."
-Peace Pilgrim
"You may never know what results come of your action,
but if you do nothing there will be no result."
-Gandhi
"My definition of a free society is a society where it
is safe to be unpopular."
-Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952 US
diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965)
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created
by the individual who can labor in freedom."
-Albert Einstein, 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950 US (German-born)
physicist (1879 - 1955)
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase
a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, &
printer (1706 - 1790)
"Only the educated are free."
-Epictetus, Discourses Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic
philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD)
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it
must be achieved."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936 32nd president
of US (1882 - 1945)
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread
it."
-George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856
- 1950)
"While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When
there is freedom there will be no State."
-Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919 Russian Communist
politician & revolutionary (1870 - 1924)
"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It
is itself the highest political end."
-Lord Acton, Lecture, February 26, 1877
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one
can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
-Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965 US black nationalist leader
(1925 - 1965)
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we
have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech,
freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice
either of them."
-Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897) US humorist, novelist,
short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
"To know what you prefer instead
of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought
to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
-Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish author (1850 - 1894)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending
too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree
of it."
-Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791 3rd president
of US (1743 - 1826)
"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical
atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is
a god or not."
-Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
-Frank Lloyd Wright US architect (1869 - 1959)
"If there were no God, there would be no Atheists."
-G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (1874
- 1936)
"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for
His reputation if He didn't."
-Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need
not exist in order to save us."
-Peter De Vries, "The Mackerel Plaza," 1958
"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable
truth through the power of institutions and the passage of
time."
-Richard Dawkins, "The Root of All Evil", Channel
4 UK, 2006 British ethnologist, geneticist, & popularizer
of genetics (1941 - )
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies
have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
-Richard Dawkins, "The Root of All Evil", UK Channel
4, 2006 British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer
of genetics (1941 - )
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist
(1694 - 1778)
"They always say time changes things, but you actually
have to change them yourself." -Andy Warhol, The Philosophy
of Andy Warhol US artist (1928 - 1987)
"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't.
It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."
-James Gordon, M.D.
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts
make it."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations Roman Emperor, A.D.
161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD)
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly
to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when
all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
-Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist,
& zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed
no better than we deserve." -George Bernard Shaw Irish
dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many
for appointment by the corrupt few."
-George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims
for Revolutionists" Irish dramatist & socialist (1856
- 1950)
"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian
to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
-Gustave Flaubert French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)
"Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we
need them."
Marquis de Flers -Robert and Arman de Caillavet
"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a
dictatorship."
-Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
33rd president of US (1884 - 1972)
"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But
there are dishonest men in national government too."
-Richard M. Nixon 37th president of US (1913 - 1994)
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
-Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist
(1694 - 1778)
"Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but
it won't work."
-Will Rogers, Weekly Articles (1981), first published 1927
US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935)
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want
to test a man's character, give him power."
-Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
-Seneca Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5
BC - 65 AD)
"Knowledge is power."
-Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
-Albert Einstein, (attributed) US (German-born) physicist
(1879 - 1955)
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
-George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on
James Burnham" English essayist, novelist, & satirist
(1903 - 1950)
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter
how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will
not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's
children."
-Jimmy Carter US diplomat & Democratic politician (1924
- )
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics
with bloodshed."
-Mao Tse-Tung Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976)
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow
too fond of it."
-Robert E. Lee US-Confederate general (1807 - 1870)
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and
easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can
measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman
who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal
is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave
of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
-Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 - 1965)
"The over-man...Who has organized the chaos of his passions,
given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of
life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."
-Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 - 1900)
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."
-Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 - 1900)
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he
thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an
abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146 German
philosopher (1844 - 1900)
"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good
and evil."
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 German
philosopher (1844 - 1900)
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into
contact with reality at any point." -Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Antichrist, section 16 German philosopher (1844 - 1900)
"Morality is herd instinct in the individual."
-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116 German
philosopher (1844 - 1900)
"God is dead."
-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108 German
philosopher (1844 - 1900)
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him
to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those
who think differently."
-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, Sec. 297 German philosopher
(1844 - 1900)
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks
around for a coffin.
-H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must
be prepared to see them misunderstood."
-H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies
to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -
and both commonly succeed, and are right."
-H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much
may be done if we are always doing."
-Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous
to our liberties than standing armies."
-Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
"I cannot live without books."
-Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder
I work the more I have of it."
-Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself
alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my
life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion
which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
-Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated
than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
-Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable
on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive."
-Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
"We in America do not have government by the majority.
We have government by the majority who participate."
-Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under
which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly
in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every
opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God;
because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage
of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards
could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks
to the Internet, we know that is not true."
-Robert Wilensky
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
-Paul Gauguin
"A cult is a religion with no political power."
-Tom Wolfe
"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made
the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
-Bertrand Russel
"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics
ruled by Frankenstein logic."
-David Russel
"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must
be prepared to see them misunderstood."
-H.L.Menken
"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief
in the occurrence of the improbable."
-H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives
under."
-H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know
what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
-H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
"Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of
his imagination and the other is not yet born."
-Kahlil Gibran Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931)
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration
from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange,
I am ungrateful to these teachers."
-Kahlil Gibran Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931)
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not
blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
-Kahlil Gibran Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931)
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the
most massive characters are seared with scars."
-Kahlil Gibran Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931)
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does
not love her."
-Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 -
1900)
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so
much."
-Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 -
1900)
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait
of the artist, not of the sitter."
-Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 -
1900)
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we
have to alter it every six months."
-Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 -
1900)
"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
-Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 -
1900)
" Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone
elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
-Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 -
1900)
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
-Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 -
1900)
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of
dreams."
-Willy Wonka. Inventor, chocolatier, cunning wizard &
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