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Quotes by Lithuanian Authors
"To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character."
"If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting."
"I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all."
"In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home."
"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul."
"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
"Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth."
"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there."
"I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate."
"God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box."
"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
"Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart."
"It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on."
"If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs."
"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"
"The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character."
"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus."
"I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them."
"The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once."
"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free."
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
"I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know."
"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."
"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture."
"Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited."
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves."
"The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land."
"I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York."
"It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten."
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