The Great Monuments Are Raised Up Like Dams, Pitting The Logic Of Majesty And Authority Against All The Shady Elements: It Is In The Form Of Cathedrals And Palaces That Church And State Speak And Impose Silence On The Multitudes.

-Georges Bataille

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The Great Monuments Are Raised Up Like

Georges Bataille

The Great Monuments Are Raised Up Like Dams, Pitting The Logic Of Majesty And Authority Against All The Shady Elements: It Is In The Form Of Cathedrals And Palaces That Church And State Speak And Impose Silence On The Multitudes.

Topic

Silence

Church

Dams

It Is Human Agitation, With All The Vulgarity Of Needs Small And Great, With Its Flagrant Disgust For The Police Who Repress It, It Is The Agitation Of All Menthat Alone Determines Revolutionary Mental Forms, In Opposition To Bourgeois Mental Forms.

Police

Agitation

Needs