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“The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.”

States Character Government Form Color Absolutes Conservative Republic Nazi Monarchy Fascists Static Bolsheviks Constitutional Monarchy

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.”

Happens Color Absolutes Colour Exaggerated

Author:Michel Eugene Chevreul

“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.”

“It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.”

Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

“One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.”

Men Given Attention Century Color Absolutes Command One Man Coast Monarchs Living Color

Author:Walter Wriston

“Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.”

Way Film Simple Four Sky Color Photography Red Absolutes Blue Green Vulgar Lipstick Blue Sky Simple Words Foliage Color Photography

Author:Walker Evans

“I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive for a society in which everyone -regardless of race, creed, color and especially religious conviction - has the same exhilarating raison d'être, and the same opportunity to fulfill it.”

Want Opportunity Religious Race Color Drink Limits Absolutes Strive Conviction Creeds Exhilarating Dregs

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet a smudge, the slate still blank, there is only the present moment: each vital detail, shocked color, the fall of light. Like film stills. The mind relentlessly open to the world, deeply impressed, even hurt by it: not yet gauzed by memory.”

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”

Thinking Said Black White Perfect Beauty Fashion Color Absolutes Harmony Absence Fashionista Perfect Harmony Balance And Harmony Color White Color Black

Author:Coco Chanel

“There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.”

Source: The Romance of the Commonplace

“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.”

“White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.”

White Worst Color Terrible Horror Absolutes Hospitals Nurse

Author:Joan Mitchell