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“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Existencilism (2002)
Source: Wall and Piece
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight
Variant: And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight
“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die, so that the country may live.”
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Original French: Je prononce à regret cette fatale vérité... mais Louis doit mourir, parce qu'il faut que la patrie vive. <br class="br"> Speech to the National Convention http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/journal_debats/an/1792/convention_1792_12_03.htm on the judgment of Louis XVI (3 December 1792)
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Original French: Le secret de la liberté est d'éclairer les hommes, comme celui de la tyrannie est de les retenir dans l'ignorance <br class="br">Source: Oeuvres, Volume 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=iSMVAAAAQAAJ p. 253.
“The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave.”
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002) Queen consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II
In a public declaration in the early years of World War II. Sourced from the British Royal Family History website.
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
"Salt of the Earth" (co-written with Keith Richards) on the Rolling Stones' 1968 album Beggars Banquet (1968).
Lyrics
“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
“Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
“Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
Xi Jinping (1953) General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and paramount leader of China
New Asian Security Concept For New Progress in Security Cooperation https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/t1159951.shtml，Shanghai Expo Center, 21 May 2014 <br class="br">2010s
“The East is rising and the West is declining.”
Xi Jinping (1953) General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and paramount leader of China
2020s
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
"Social Justice and the Emerging New Age" address at the Herman W. Read Fieldhouse, Western Michigan University (18 December 1963)
1960s
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist
Direct Action (1912)
Context: Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist. Some thirty years ago I recall that the Salvation Army was vigorously practising direct action in the maintenance of the freedom of its members to speak, assemble, and pray. Over and over they were arrested, fined, and imprisoned; but they kept right on singing, praying, and marching, till they finally compelled their persecutors to let them alone.
Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer
I ended up walking for two hours, and at the end of it I was crying to myself because I felt so sad.
My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 19, Longing
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
Quoted in Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine (2013) by Phillipe Mather, p. 46
Context: I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
“It’s weird how Muslim Authors despise trade when their religion considers it as a pillar of faith”
Ali Al-Wardi (1913–1995) Iraqi sociologist