Jasenko Tufekcic Quotes & Sayings

With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects, which confront him in a tactile way with the final and deepest problems of our existence. I want the means that I employ to create the necessary stimulus to be as direct as possible. Instead of giving a sermon on humility, I often prefer to depict humility itself. — Antoni Tapies

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so. — Jimmy Carl Black

,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw.
Chapter I. — Chuck Palahniuk

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors. — Mark Ruffalo

How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God? — Alexis De Tocqueville

I'll give you another example. The snake in the Garden of Eden?"
"Yeah?"
"It was just a snake. Humanity's first real decision was to defy God. So was mine. That's the reason I make you uncomfortable. We're so much alike. — Richard Kadrey

One of the proud joys of the man of letters
if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory. — Edmond De Goncourt

A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious. — Frank Delaney

A dead black man - nothing to bother about. — Henning Mankell

Six kinds of aggressors are at once to be killed, and no sin is incurred by killing such aggressors. They are (1) a poison giver, (2) one who sets fire to the house, (3) one who attacks with deadly weapons, (4) one who plunders riches, (5) one who occupies another's land, and (6) one who kidnaps a wife. — Mahaprabhu Das

Syracuse was again ruled by Dionysuis II,
the former young philosopher king was now an overbearing and unjust Tyrant. — Daniel Peter Buckley

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing. — Marianne Williamson