Viv

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Banksy

“Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Dictatorships, wars, and cruelty drive whole countries to madness. My theory is that the human species was crazy from the very first and that civilization and culture are only enhancing man’s insanity.
A Tale of Two Sisters”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Even the worm that crawls in the Earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter your God.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer