"Creativity begins with amazement and concern. The cry that is not an evocative song, first empathy, then sympathy, then hatred for the circumstances that cause pain, and a vision and a desire for those conditions not to exist. The artist is involved, then committed, and finally devoted."
—Maya Deren

"In all dealings between a privileged man and a commoner, is it not certain that the latter has no redress against oppression, since if he is bold enough to take legal action he has to appeal to members of the privileged classes? They alone dispose of authority and is not their first reaction to regard the commoner’s law-suit as insubordination?"
―Emmanuel-Joseph Sièyes