Juan Villoro quotes

“Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.”
-- Juan Villoro

#Mediocrity Quotes #Crime Quotes

“Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.”

Source : Anthony Hecht (2012). “Collected Earlier Poems”, p.72, Knopf

“What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.”

“It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.”

Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

“As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.”

Source : "Bradford Cox Talks "Shocking" Minneapolis Show" by Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. March 7, 2012.

“Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.”

Source : Bruce Barnbaum (2017). “The Art of Photography, 2nd Edition: A Personal Approach to Artistic Expression”, p.165, Rocky Nook, Inc.

“Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.”

“The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.

“A friend to honesty and a foe to crime”

“Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.”

Source : 'To His coy Mistress' (1681) l. 1

“Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.”