Ballad Of A Soldier (Баллада о солдате) 1959, Dir. Grigory Chukhray (Григорий

ATOMIC BLONDE (2017) | dir. David Leitch

Rachel Weisz as Lady Sarah in The Favourite (2018)

ANNE PARILLAUD as Nikita in La Femme Nikita (1990) (dir. Luc Besson)

“Foolishness keeps following us at every stage of life. If someone seems wise, it is only because his follies are in keeping with his age and circumstances.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

Erotic fresco at the House of the Vettii in Pompeii.

Girl Arranging Her Hair (1918-19) by Abbott Handerson Thayer

“The man who lies ill in bed sometimes discovers that what he is ill from is usually his office, his business or his society and that through them he has lost all circumspection with regard to himself: he acquires this wisdom from the leisure to which his illness has compelled him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 289

"But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat, robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different kind of social order."

Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of liberation theology, passed away 22 October 2024 at the age of 96.

Interior of the Colosseum, Rome (1832) by Thomas Cole

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