"Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume and carry out public responsibilities, less accountable institutions such as the corporation will do the job in their own self-interest."

-- Charles Derber

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“Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep to what you have received from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church? You introduce novelties!”
“A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession of knowledge makes for unjust power over others only if used for that very purpose: a physician or lawyer or clergyman can exploit or humiliate others, or he can be a humanitarian and a benefactor. In any case, it is absurd to conjure up behind anybody who exploits his educated status the existence of an "elite" scheming to oppress the rest of us.”
“I am very aware that I'm one of the luckiest people who ever lived.”
“If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.”
“If your parents are alive, be grateful at the opportunity to earn Jannah by serving them”
“I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.”
“We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.”
“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you....”

Source : Interview, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 1950

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