"The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise."

-- Jean Danielou

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“The entire 'my art is better than your art' thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your art IS better than my art... at being what it is. So what? It just so happens that my art is better than your art, at being what it is.”
“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”
“It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.”
“Life is just to sweet to be bitter.”
“Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”
“If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.”

Source : Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.2, Routledge
“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.”
“And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.”

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