Erik Lamela Quotes & Sayings

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy. — Aristotle.

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished. — Robert Frank

No one is original. Everyone is derivative. — Sonny Rollins

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind. — Theodore Roosevelt

And by that habit of submission, with which we are only too familiar, the thought of the next generation retains this religious twist, which is at once servile and authoritative; for authority and servility walk ever hand in hand. — Pyotr Kropotkin

Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather, it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past. — Joan Z. Borysenko

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. — W.B.Yeats