Celestial Kings and Queens Quotes

“I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“A philosopher's house is always more tuneful than a disciplinarian's.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“Love arrives without practical deliberations in its suitcase.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“The letter of the law should bend; and this bending should be with the winds of freedom rather than toward the lifelessness of still punishment.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“When melodies and chord changes are masterfully combined, a grand movement takes over our entire body, awakening heart, nerves, and emotions with a primitive force. One can see it in the ancient dance of the enchantress: her hypnotic jingling of costume, her trance to appease the gods.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“When you recklessly mine the depths of your imagination, universal truths are freed to surface.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“The tyrant is asleep to beauty and awake to ugliness.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“Because love operates outside of time, love has always existed and it will never cease.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“In a legitimate democracy, all have an equal say.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“Not only does American corn syrup run deep in our food — it also runs deep in our propaganda.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“Like the continents, men and women were once connected, but they drifted apart. The evidence is still there, but you have to possess the determination of a mad archeologist to discover it.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“You are provided with hands, but you decide how to employ them. Some use their hands to provide a lover's caress, chisel a sculpture, plant seeds; others use their hands to tighten a noose, pull a gun trigger, turn a prison key on innocent souls.”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens

“If one truly believes in freedom, how can one welcome the notion of slavery from either traditional masters or temperance-wielding masters disguised as servants?”
― Joshua Emmet, Celestial Kings and Queens