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Quotes by Lithuanian Authors
"If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting."
"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."
"I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know."
"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."
"I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore."
"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there."
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
"Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth."
"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."
"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."
"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
"I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate."
"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."
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves."
"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."
"Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart."
"Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited."
"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."
"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."
"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture."
"I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know."
"It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten."
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