As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.
Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
I didn't start a war. Nobody died.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.