Itself Quotes

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they’re twirling around me at the time.

The body is a self-healing organism, so it’s really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.

Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.