#Etc Quotes #Example Quotes #Citizens Quotes
“I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?”
Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.491, Macmillan
“Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.”
“Every great genius has an admixture of madness.”
“Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.”
“I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.”
“I see lies everywhere - switch on the television, it's lies. Everything is lies. In the art world or science community, we are intellectuals, people who research, who are interested in learning and thinking. I think the level of lies is way lower than when you step into what I call "the outside world".”
“Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.”
“Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.”
Dave Franco Television actor
Derek Jarman Film director
Ed Wood Screenwriter
Greg Sestero Film actor
James Franco Actor
Liz Garbus
Seth Rogen Comedian
Tom Bissell Journalist
Roy Lee Film producer
