Pablo Picasso Quotes

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

Pablo Picasso

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• Dictatorship
• Betrayed

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• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Authority

• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Age
  • Free
  • Me

• Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Movement
  • Dictatorship

• My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strange

• It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Act
  • Authority
  • Vote

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Moral
  • Authority
  • Lot

• Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Authority
  • Issue
  • Defending

• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Authority
  • Ethics
  • Concern

• God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Author
  • Authority

• I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. "Betray" is a sort of shorthand for what happens.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Why
  • Betray
  • Betrayed

• I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Healthy

• Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

  

  Lou Barletta
  • Law
  • Authority
  • Picks

• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower, or power, and act like a 20th-century dictatorship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Power
  • Dictatorship

• When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Tolerance

• No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Natural
  • Authority

• “When Jenny left me, betrayed me for a cripple whom she imagined to need her more, my mother said never mind, perhaps he would die and then I could have her back again.”

  

  B.S. Johnson
  • Back
  • Left
  • Betrayed

• Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Freedom
  • Constitution
  • Privilege

• I spend time doing cardio because it makes me feel good.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Good
  • Me

• Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.

  

  N. Katherine Hayles
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Style

• If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Effort

• There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Authority
  • Dictatorship
  • Betrayed