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“There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.”

Giving Mind Political Desire Subjects Prisoner Political Prisoners

“It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.”

Feels Should Mean Desire Certain Speak Views Subjects Essentials Embrace Paint Point Of View Revelations Logical Conception Compelled Absolutely Nothing

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.”

Should Trying Body Desire Asks Energy Force Process Levels Power Subjects Materials Behavior Constitution Instance Etc Gestures Organisms Multiplicity Subjection Subjugation

Author:Michel Foucault

“Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.”

Men Way Seems Able Desire Space Vision Feminism Subjects Capable Embrace Feminist Fulfillment Revolutionary Encounters Imaginary Linked Responding Subjugation

Book:Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

“When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them”

Desire Known Principles Subjects Periods Institutions Structure Arrangements

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.”

Way Want Desire Subjects Draws Paint

Author:Gerald Brommer

“Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.”

Writing Would Be Able Desire Impossible Atheism Subjects Expression Offers Sake Positive Atheism Profession Atmosphere Consistently Disobedience Civil Disobedience Trunks Satyagraha

Book:Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance

Source: Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance

“A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.”

Doe Government Desire Lines Subjects Defined Precision

Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.”

Humans Today Science Desire Strong Race Psychology Subjects Comfortable Regard Myth Physics Human Race Customs Insignificant

Book:The decline and fall of science

Source: The decline and fall of science

“But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the obedience of one's brother and makes a man subject to all the men of this world and not to men alone, but also to all beasts and wild animals, so that they may do with him whatsoever they will, in so far as it may be granted to them from above by the Lord.”

Men World May Body Spirit Desire Animal Lord Subjects This World He Man Brother Holy Granted Obedience Beast Wild Animal

Book:Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi

Source: Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi

“No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.”

Should Humans Art Feelings Form Desire United Known Failing Subjects Pure Art Is Difficulty Fundamentals Instinct Judgement Abstract Erotic Spectators

Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.”

People May Made Desire Wish Causes Subjects Duty Prosperity Queens Rejoice Desire To Live Longer Days

Book:Elizabeth I: Collected Works

Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works

“There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.”

May Country Care Desire Wise Subjects Sitting Safety Careful Queens Seats Willingness Venture Reign Zeal Desire To Live

Author:Elizabeth I

“The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.”

Desire Knowing Journey Subjects Selling Not Knowing Desire To Learn

Author:Richard Saul Wurman

“First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt that people needed justification. Why are you doing a silent movie? Is it just for your own pleasure? I felt it was not enough for them so I realized I have to choose the subject that will make things easier for them and to tell the story of a silent actor makes sense for doing a silent movie.”

People Firsts Enough Stories Desire Actors Felt Pleasure Talking Subjects Needed Easier Silent I Realized Make Sense Justification Format Silent Movies

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

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