“I've seen the needle and damage done, a little part of it in everyone, but every junkie's like a settin'sun….”

“We aim at national independence and a democratic State. Democracy is freedom but also discipline, and we must therefore develop both the freedom and the discipline of democracy among our people.”

Sri Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) politico indiano

“There's no reason for you to love me | after all of the heartaches we've been through. | But I love you, I just can't help it. | You're so beautiful, what else shall I do? | You say you didn't make me love you | and you tell me that you're not to blame. | But it still hurt me the same. | Darling, love is not a game. | 'Cause it hurts, oh. | It hurts, yeah. (da It Hurts, n. 3)”

Greg Lake (1947–2016) chitarrista, bassista e cantante britannico

“The Bible was very definitely written by men, and not superior men either; far from it! This is why so much of it can be shown to be historically and scientifically dead wrong about damned-near everything back-to-front.”

Aron Ra (1962)

“To ask the mind to kill the mind | is like making the thief, | when I reach the selfish stage | I enjoy a certain pleasure, | but sometimes a vague fear | which I cannot describe.”

Franco Battiato (1945) musicista, cantautore e regista italiano

“I ricordi sono piccoli segreti custoditi nello scrigno del cuore!

Memories are little secrets kept in the chest of the heart!”

Laura Lapietra

“True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.

Fonte: https://le-citazioni.it/community/translations/243231/#_=_”

Walter Scott (1771–1832) scrittore e poeta britannico

“Nota: 1960s, "Specific Objects," 1965, Context: A work needs only to be interesting. Most works finally have one quality. In earlier art the complexity was displayed and built the quality. In recent painting the complexity was in the format and the few main shapes, which had been made according to various interests and problems. A painting by Newman is finally no simpler than one by Cezanne. In the three-dimensional work the whole thing is made according to complex purposes, and these are not scattered but asserted by one form. It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality as a whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful. p. 77. Partly quoted in: Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C.), ‎Barbara Rose (1967) New aesthetic: Exhibition May 6-June 25, 1967. p. 45

Origine: https://le-citazioni.it/community/translations/188146/”

Donald Judd (1928–1994) artista statunitense

“Deus est filius dei. | Tutte le macchine al potere | gli uomini a pane ed acqua. | And what is cosmos? | What is the meaning of the world? | History is bunk.”

Franco Battiato (1945) musicista, cantautore e regista italiano

“Il Dio del cristianesimo non è il Dio violento della religione arcaica, ma il Dio non violento che si fa volentieri vittima per liberarci dalla nostra violenza
"The Scandal of Christianity" in Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture (2007)

Fonte: https://le-citazioni.it/community/translations/245558/”

René Girard (1923–2015) critico letterario e antropologo francese