"The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it."

-- Jean Francois Revel

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“We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.”

Source : Christopher Dawson (2001). “Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.176, CUA Press
“I don't shave when I'm not working.”
“Women only love those that they donâ€™t know.”
“As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.”

Source : "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". Women's Weekly interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.
“All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.”
“I use poetry to help me work through what I donâ€™t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that Iâ€™ve been.”
“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so”
“George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed its course over almost half a century, and they argued with each other constantly while it was going on. But they maintained throughout a remarkable friendship, demonstrating-as few others in our time have-that it is possible to differ with civility. Nicholas Thompson's is a fine account of that relationship, carefully researched, beautifully written, and evocatively suggestive of how much we have lost because such civility has become so rare.”

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