Pastoral Resources

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

Depression is rage spread thin.

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.