Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker
1941 - 1967
Source: 'Statements by Four artists', Edward Hopper, in 'Reality' 1., Spring 1953, p. 8
“Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society.”
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 32
Context: Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. For they are the bearers of the human being's age old capacity to be insurgent. They love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian political theorist, and historian
"Society Without A State" in The Libertarian Forum (1975) http://www.mises.org/journals/lf/1975/1975_01.pdf. <br class="br">Context: I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Remarks at Amherst College (26 October 1963)
1963
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 57
“Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.”
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
“The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (November 25, 1892)
Letters
Barnett Newman (1905–1970) American artist
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 2. 1943-1945, p. 126
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Of Laws.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections