Art
“Culture is the last refuge, the sanctuary, the human place in the midst of the surrounding dehumanization. Through the arts man is able to know himself, even if only on the intuitive level. He senses his own worth, even when he cannot articulate it.”
“Can a poem or a song defeat a tyrant?”
“Yes. Yes it can, given enough time. When a work of art is both beautiful and true, man’s freedom is strengthened by it…”
Michael D. O’Brien Island of the World
