Objects Quote by Amiri Baraka Download Open image “The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.” — Amiri Baraka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Objects Pain Subjects Torture Unseen
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
“Amongst the many trials to which the human mind is subjected, that of holding intercourse, real or imaginary, with the world of spirits: of… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
“Sensory deprivation has a devastating psychological impact and can lead to the complete dissolution of the personality accompanied by hallucinations, delusional thinking and general… — Brian Moss Copy Share Image
“What’s the definition of torture? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s when someone you can’t stand to be parted from leaves you to… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in face of… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Even torture that is only verbal reinforce the power of the torturer: The prisoner's imagination leads him to dread the next round of interrogations.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“…the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly—by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.” — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die. — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“Strapped in, this chair conjures sympathetic imagery the eyes could never record. Theater of the mind etched on the skull wall. The collective depression… — gordon highland Copy Share Image
I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Poems are bullshit unless they are teeth or trees or lemons piled on a step. Or black ladies dying of men leaving nickel hearts… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Thought is more important than art…To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then, on the other hand, tell people, "Elect me… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions. — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
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