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Quotes from State of the Art — Vanna Bonta

1958–2014 Italy

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18 quotes

The pending direction of society rests more than any time in recorded history on the fulcrum of a human finger.

State of the Art (2000)

As technology puts the God-wand into the hands of mankind, new ethical issues never before facing us pose harrowing decisions.

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The ability to do, to make, to generate and contribute is the essence of a human being.

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Recognition of one’s fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.

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When the personal worth of individuals is calculated only in money, sense of self becomes confused with financial net worth.

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Fame factories develop and promote hip icons who exude superior airs.

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There is no greater poverty than oblivion to self and others.

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The masses once dined on opera and Shakespeare.

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There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

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People, when cognizant, influence their personal growth and their environment by their will.

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Pushing fear and sex buttons is a poor substitute for aesthetic elation, transcendental euphoria and quintessential stimulation.

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I see the Internet as society’s approach to graduation into the ultimate meaning of Conscience, i.e., "with knowing.”

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As a global society, befriending one another in the interchange of what we each have to offer will support a renascence of our humanity.

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When confidence in the power to create is obscured, greed sets in, for greed is nothing but the loss of confidence in one’s own ability to create.

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Working to get money is in fact backwards and has been twisted from the healthy human dynamic; one works toward a purpose of contribution and exchange and personal fulfillment.

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A poet's first contract is with truth.

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Creativity, no matter how elementally miniscule or broad in scope, is what differentiates human beings as superior to any material value, and also empowers the achievement of excellence beyond personal flaws.

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Money is a human invention.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vanna Bonta (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.