Mark Poster famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
-- Mark Poster

#Government #Abuse #Enemy
Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.
-- Mark Poster

#Doe #Way #Revolution
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
-- Mark Poster

#Class #People #Film
Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.
-- Mark Poster

#Today #Vehemence #Equal
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
-- Mark Poster

#Relation #Aesthetics

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No oneâ€¦gets left behind. An instrument of good.
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved â€” I do not expect the house to fall â€” but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phÃ©nomÃ¨ne", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.

Mark Poster famous quotes

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