“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 258 of 1106
“I'm prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it in the rear end.”
“He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.”
“Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.”
“In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.”
“Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.”
“Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.”
“The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.”
“2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.”
“We will accept nothing less than full Victory!”
“Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.”
“Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.”
“The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.”
“An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.”
“There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.”
“Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.”
“Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.”
“If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.”
“The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.”
“We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.”