Joshua Emmet Quotes & Sayings

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

Love arrives without practical deliberations in its suitcase. — Joshua Emmet

A philosopher's house is always more tuneful than a disciplinarian's. — Joshua Emmet

The tyrant is asleep to beauty and awake to ugliness. — Joshua Emmet

In a legitimate democracy, all have an equal say. — Joshua Emmet

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

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

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all? — Joshua Emmet

I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass. — Joshua Emmet

Because love operates outside of time, love has always existed and it will never cease. — Joshua Emmet

Not only does American corn syrup run deep in our food - it also runs deep in our propaganda. — Joshua Emmet

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

Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation? — Joshua Emmet

When you recklessly mine the depths of your imagination, universal truths are freed to surface. — Joshua Emmet

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

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