He came over and ruffled my hair, which is technically assault. I could get on the blower to ChildLine.
In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.
Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
As a student, you have to learn what areas are most difficult for you. . . Those are the same difficulties you'll have as a professional artist, so the school is the place to notice them and to find a way to make them work.
Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.
The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.
We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.
I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids.
Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks.