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“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”

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Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was a pioneer of stand-up comedy and a significant influence on later comedians. Known for his controversial and often obscene humor, Bruce faced frequent censorship and legal troubles throughout his career. He was born on October 13, 1925, and died on August 3, 1966. more

“The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.”

Real Body Stars Missing Photograph Rays Radiation Insignificant Duration Touch Me Transmission Delayed

Author:Roland Barthes

“The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).”

Doe Sometimes Shows Force Violence Sight Photograph Violent Occasions Sugar Transformed

Author:Roland Barthes

“People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.”

People Ifs Life Children Ends Life Is Stars Wonder Teach Aim Absurd Bowls Goldfish

Book:The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.”

Age Values Social Creation Photography Photograph Appearance Explosions Publicity Social Values