Machinnes Quotes

#1. Sky is grey, vegetation is plastic, and mankind is pale, for we have spent our days conceiving unnecessary tools for our arousal, and so we hide the nakedness of nature with brutal machinnes.

Shawn Lukas

#2. In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Cato The Younger

#3. Gandhiji was not born in freedom. All his life, except for a few months. lay within the framework of colonial rule. A good part of that life lay buried in prison cells. Yet he was always the free man, while those who held him imprisoned were the unfree ones.

Bhabani Bhattacharya

#4. He can think now only of objects. Something alive, just one small grey bird on a branch, will break his heart.

Michael Ondaatje

#5. He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.

Walter Scott

#6. A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

Ben Salmon

#7. You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

Damien Hirst