Buffalo · Skopia

Quotes

6by people from here

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind-even if your voice shakes.

1991

★ 6.0

Sermon · Religious literature

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

1933

★ 3.4

Political literature

Third parties are like bees. Once they have stung, they die.

Richard Hofstadter

1955

★ 1.9

Political literature

The distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a "vast" or "gigantic" conspiracy as the motive force in historical events. History is a conspiracy, set in motion by demonic forces of almost trancendent power, and what is felt to be needed to defeat it is no the usual methods of political give and take, but an all-out crusade.

Richard Hofstadter

1964

★ 1.9

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Art

6held here

Yellow Christ

1889★ 7.2

Spirit of the Dead Watching

1892★ 7.1

Carnival of Harlequin

1925★ 7.1

Convergence

Jackson Pollock

1952★ 7.1

Orange and Yellow

1956★ 6.9

A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon

1902★ 5.7