YourFuture2000

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Anarchist/Communist. My best friends are books.

The more the artist knows how to flatter the senses, the more he will mobilize defences against this flattery. The very progress of his skill will lead to a longing for the appearance of less skill and more honesty, It is this subjective reaction, this contrast in effects, which will tend to surround earlier phases of art...
Iron swords diminished the value set on bronze swords. Perhaps pottery had once upon a time diminished the value set on skulls.
France says Netanyahu, Gallant have immunity from ICC charges, won't arrest them. Paris says that while it respects the international justice system, Israel's leaders cannot be held accountable by The Hague as the country is not an ICC member
A bowl of porridge with fruits.
"he thought of development as a collection of things for producing, not as a process of change. The process itself was something he could not buy, nor Western Europe sell."
"Nobody cared what we wanted when they built this Place. They threw our houses down and pushed us here and pushed our friends somewhere else. We don't have a place around here to get cup of coffee or a newspaper even, or borrow fifty cents. Nobody cared what we need. But the big men come and look at that grass and say, Isn't it wonderful! Now the poor have everything!'" This tenant was saying what moralists have said for thousands of years: Handsome is as handsome does. All that glitters is not gold. She was saying more: "There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served."