Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.

Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

The Ruins of Bannerman Castle in Upstate New York, in the middle of the Hudson River.

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.

Kenneth M. Clark

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.

André Gide

Strait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars

Daniel Mullen.

Smart meter effects.

'Forest'. Stanisław Witkiewicz. 1892.

'A country house by moonlight'. Wilfred Bosworth Jenkins. 1857-1936.

'Transparent self'. Tomoyuki Kobe. 2016.

Kenne Grégoire.