“Artistes, orateurs, prophètes, hommes-colosses comme Danton, hommes-enfants comme Cloots, gladiateurs et philosophes, tous allaient au même but, le progrès. Rien ne les déconcertait. La grandeur de la Convention fut de chercher la quantité de réel qui est dans ce que les hommes appellent l'impossible.” RevolutionConventionRepublique Author:Victor Hugo
“We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.” ArtArchitectureComplicityConvention Book:Complicity and Conviction: Steps Toward an Architecture of Convention Source: Complicity and Conviction: Steps Toward an Architecture of Convention
“Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.” HomeHurtTakenPolicyHeartbreakWeaknessAdvantageLiesStealingTyrannyCrueltySelfishnessControlCaptureApathySuperiorityDominationStolenSelf InterestStanceAudacityOwnConventionNegative InfluencePoliciesOwnerBad InfluenceStrictnessSelf CentredOwnedCaptivationTaking Advantage Of SomeoneSocial StrataWeaker Vessels Author:Michael Bassey Johnson
“For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our thieving, as we have found it necessary to organise our lust and revenge. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.” LawMarriagePropertyConvention Book:Erewhon Source: Erewhon