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Gallery for Art and Literature
Site dedicated to an open variety of art forms, including: Poetry, Music, Art, Paintings, Films/Film ideas, Photography, Ideas, and Literature.
Contents: Links to additional ideas and photos in icons at left. Quotes, ideas, and film ideas in the middle, and my links at the very bottom..
Art, Decorative Art, Photos..
Listening to absolutely everyone; 100% adherent to no one.
Quotes and Ideas
"I would rather discover a single cause than become king of the Persians."-Democritus
“What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.”- Bruce Barton
"A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both" -James Madison
"Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone. Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him - mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp" -Viktor Frankl
"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city" -Proverbs 16:32
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." -Mohandas Gandhi
"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor." -Thomas W. Higginson
"When citizens fear their government, you have tyranny; when the government fears its citizens, you have freedom." -Thomas Jefferson
"We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." -Mohandas Gandhi
"No one defends human rights. Governments are cold beasts looking out for their own interests." -Father Francois Ponchaud
"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap."-Ayn Rand
"When the common man has no knowledge, the intellectual no concern, and the privileged no heart, a tyrant will have reign."-J
"Who can be wise while they only battle a certain religion, a certain race, or a certain nationality, while they must simultaneously remain unaware of those who set one against the other?"-J
“The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over" -Mark Twain
Now, some quotes from rather nasty people in contrast...
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."- Adolf Hitler
"I have built my organization upon fear."-Al Capone
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."-Adolf Hitler
"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention." -Adolf Hitler
Movies and Film
Analyzing behind the obvious
First to be put on the spotlight: Crimson Tide. (coming soon)
Poems/Lyrics
Just some tiny samples of some my lyrics/poems...some are serious, others are just playful doodles. Other ideas welcome.
Sample #1 by J
Light pours out across the plains
dispersing into colored fragments
through the prism of coming rains
A new threshold we'll trespass
the formless cubes of our limitations
behind us, still shattering like glass....
Sample #2 by J
great configurations of beast and men
carrying the burden of war upon their back
through manipulated verse of a few corrupt
was spun the grand fabric of attack
The rhythm of their gallop imprinted onto earth bare
and in sound patterns that spiral like a stairway into the air...
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