“Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.” LooksMeanDoeAliveTraditionFlamesAshes Author:Jean Jaures
“To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.” HalfMankindMissingCrimePunishmentSignificance Book:The Middle Parts of Fortune Somme and Ancre Source: The Middle Parts of Fortune Somme and Ancre
“But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.” Life IsLackingLife Is ShortSuperfluous Author:Lope de Vega
“In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!” SeemsThings Are Not What They Seem Author:Francisco de Quevedo
“Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.” ArtBlackAutomationMechanizationBlack Art Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.” EnoughEyeLostMy OwnMillionsSeaLuckyDollarsCrashMillion DollarsCanyonsAmbulanceFaintingMarket CrashStock Market Crash Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.” HeavenTerribleBattlePoeticSkyscraper Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, found unnerving.” WorldBelieveRunningNightFoundForeverStreetsDutyHugeTerribleMoralityMachinesCrowdsThank GodTypicalTerrible ThingsHerdsDay And NightProtestantsSpaniards Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.” MenFirstsLooksKindMayMeanSocialCrimeEmptyMachinesSlaveryPainfulRhythmConfusedMechanismTypicalGlancesAnguishGangSocial LifeGaiety Author:Federico Garcia Lorca