“All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.” NeedsArtStatesTroubleMutualTemporaryContemptPossessedDependence Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women. When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.” StatesEnoughFoundUnitedUnited StatesBirthDrugEuropeTestsAvailableCaringAdministrationContemptPillsHormonesBirth ControlAmerican WomanNot CaringFdaDosageBirth Control Pills Author:Warren Farrell
“The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.” GivingSelfStatesOrderChristMoralEnemyBearsIndependenceAffairSelf RespectContemptTolerateEmperor Author:John Carroll