"In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed."

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Source : "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

Alain Badiou

#Order Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.”
“A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.”

Source : "The God of the Digerati". Essay in the American Prospect Magazine, prospect.org. March-April 1998.
“The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.”
“I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.”
“There is incredible value in being of service to others.”
“When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.”
“I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.”
“We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.”

Source : Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.20, Del Rey

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