I Remember In 1978 Meeting Two Ugandan

There Aren't Many Such Enthusiasts Born. The Average Person Is Not Especially Curious About The World. He Is Alive, And Being Somehow Obliged To Deal With This Condition, Feels The Less Effort It Requires, The Better. Whereas Learning About The World Is Labor, And A Great All-consuming One At That. Most People Develop Quite Antithetical Talents, In Fact - To Look Without Seeing, To Listen Without Hearing, Mainly To Preserve Onself Within Oneself.

There Are Several Reasons Why Russians View The Oppressive State Positively. First, In The Russian Orthodox Religion, There Is An Understanding Of Authority As Something Sent By God.

In The Russian Experience, Although The Russian State Is Oppressive, It Is Their State, It Is Part Of Their Fabric, And So The Relation Between Russian Citizens And Their State Is Complicated.

In Reference To Persepolis And All Palaces, Cities And Temples Of The Past: Could These Wonders Have Come Into Being Without That Suffering? Without The Overseer's Whip, The Slave's Fear, The Ruler's Vanity? Was Not The Monumentality Of Past Epochs Created By That Which Is Negative And Evil In Man?

Photographing Expresses Human Desire To Preserve Passing Time. It Is Like A Man Struggling With Time That Elapses, And In General - A Desire To Preserve Oneself.