Posts Tagged With: America

america hurts

 

“As I say, it is perhaps easier to love America passionately,
when you look at it through the wrong end of a
telescope than when you are right there.
When you are actually in America, America hurts.”

 

~ D.H. Lawrence ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.


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monkey man

 

“When fascism comes to America, it will be
wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.


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VIS LIBRES ET MEURS

 

“Freedom and responsibility aren’t interconnected things.
They are the same thing.”

 

~ Harry Browne ~

 

000 vis libres et meurs

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.


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I CAN’T BREATHE

 

“A great revolution is never the fault of the people,
but of the government.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.


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MONKEY MAN

 

“When fascism comes to America,
it will be wrapped in the flag
and carrying a cross.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.


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COME BLOW YOUR HORN

 

The point is, you can never be too greedy.”

 

~ Donald J. Trump ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in July 2017.


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SIX WORDS

 

“America is the only country
that went from barbarism to decadence
without civilisation in between.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.


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MAGA

 

“But ever since the Founding Fathers
of our nation dreamed this dream,
America has been something of a schizophrenic personality,
tragically divided against herself.”

 

~ Martin Luther King ~

 

Digitally enhanced image (the hat colour has been changed and the text added) created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.


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EVERMORE FOREVER

 

“We will either find a way or make one.”

 

~ Hannibal ~

 

000-evermore-foreverDigitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2015.


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MOLD ON DOGSHIT, THE STATE OF THE UNION

 

“He knows nothing;
and he thinks he knows everything.
That points clearly to a political career.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

000-mold-on-dogshit-the-state-of-the-unionDigitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Bavarian Alps in September 2016.


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