“A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»”
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
“Class supremacy can rest only on class degradation”
― The People of the Abyss
― The People of the Abyss
“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“in order to change an existing imagined order, we must first believe in an alternative imagined order.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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