Art Quote by Blaise Pascal

“The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The law was made for one thing alone,for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying…

— Bertolt Brecht

“a boundless contempt for everything outside their art, for society, and above all, for politics. (64)”

— Émile Zola

“Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.”

— Jim Morrison

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

“There is an art, a deeply political art, of taking circumstances as they arise and attributing them to your side or the opposition, in…

— Anna Funder

“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”

— Theodor Adorno

“But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the sanction and…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“When the powerless seek their own sense of control, ‘crime’ is what an unjust system produces.”

— Maurice Broaddus

“We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them…

— Aleksandar Hemon