dangerous

 

 

 

There are no dangerous thought; thinking it-self is dangerous.

Hannah Arendt

totaliarianism

 

 

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Hannah Arendt

photography

 

 

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

crying

 

 

Crying is just the way your eyes speak when your mouth can't explain how broken your heart is.

Japanese saying

truth

 

 

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

illusion

 

 

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Anais Nin

mind

 

 

 

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Alice Walker

wrong

 

 

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Malcolm X

stupid

 

 

Man is often stupid alone, but in packs he's absolutely cretinous.

Steve Toltz

love

 

 

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

 

people

 

 

People who shut their eyes to reality simple invite their own destruction.

James Baldwin

grief

 

 

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

Vicki Harrison

you

 

 

 

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

C.S. Lewis

power

 

 

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

world

 

 

We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anyone is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.

George Orwell

conscience

 

 

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Octavia E. Butler

triumph

 

 

 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

universe

 

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

Paulo Coelho

higher

 

 

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

compassion

 

 

 

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Anaïs Nin

staying human

 

 

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

George Orwell

deep

 

 

 

They muddy the water to make it seem deep.

Nietzsche

canvas

  

 

Our bodies are the canvas of our emotions, and most often, we let the world paint it.

Natasha Potter

preserve

 

 

white America would rather throw away democracy altogether, and embrace "a native form of fascism to preserve their power.

Martin Luther King, Jr

i stand with Urkraine

life

 

 

 

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

act

 

 

You have to act as it it was possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

Angela Davis

retrumplicans

 

 

The Retrumplicans are the new fascist party, Pay Attention.

Kevin Artman

time

 

 

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

erased

 

 

 

Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

George Orwell, 1984

heart

 

 

 

My heart is broken in the face of stupidity of my species.

Joni Mitchell

as if

 

 

 

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

enemy

 

 

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

dead

 

 

 

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

George Eliot

stupidity

 

 

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Margaret Atwood

greatness

 

 

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquired, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Bob Marley

be

 

 

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

Octavia Butler

love

 

 

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into frienc.

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

dreams

 

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them... The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

David Bowie

freedom

 

 

 

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Nina Simone

vibration

 

 

 

Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Marc Chagall

live

 

 

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

right

 

 

The time is always right to do what is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

love

 

 

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

David Wilkerson

you

 

 

 

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

Carl Jung

music

 

 

What I like my music to do is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

David Bowie

sun

 

 

 

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

lie

 

 

Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

George Orwell, 1984

heart

 

 

 

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

Joni Mitchell

starlight

 

 

Starlight raining over me. Like drifting through a memory. Wake up in your crystal sky.

Jai Wolf, Starlight