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- If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates…
- There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well,…
- There is some suffering that awaits us all.
- Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become…
- Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks.
- In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.
- Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and…
- Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
- All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on a bad, gloomy…
- When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a desperate struggle for…
- As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is not lost; what…
- All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the…
- Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as…
- It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it…
- Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all…
- Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.
- In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.
- Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.
- Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more…
- In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide