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“Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.”

Silence Enemy Expression Ought Speech Painter Mute

Author:Ben Okri

“Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.”

Self Character Enemy Expression Self Expression Personal Freedom

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence he has come to regard economy - a necessary unpleasant quality at best - as the chief of virtues. He has cultivated habits which verge on closeness in dealing with food, and with the expression of feeling, and even - his enemies think - with feeling itself.”

Thinking Two Feelings Force Quality Enemy Economy Gone Virtue Share Century Expression Habit Regard Chiefs Barren Verge Closeness Thrift Expression Of Feeling

Author:Rebecca Harding Davis

“An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.”

Men Government Form Cities Enemy Expression Oppression Opponents Destroying Rebel Bent Avant Garde Systems Of Government

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all times, it has opposed the liberty of thought and expression. It has been the sworn enemy of investigation and intellectual development. It has denied the existence of facts, the tendency of which was to undermine its power. It has always been carrying fagots to the feet of Philosophy. It has erected the gallows for Genius. It has built the dungeon for Thinkers.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They always had exaggerated canine teeth and a certain sort of expression. That led to speculation about whether at an earlier stage in the human experience we were hunted by some sort of carnivore.”

People Humans Different Certain Culture Enemy Study Stage Expression Draws Teeth Speculation Human Experience Exaggerated Different Cultures Canine Hunted Carnivores

Author:Jaron Lanier