"There's this progress, incredible progress of technology, everything is figured out, everything is known, everything is systematic and under control, communication is going on, but still there is such a great portion of life that we have utterly no control over. It's completely chaotic. Something could happen overnight."

-- Michal Rovner

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“Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the ***** are us.”
“People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.”
“As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.”
“Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.”
“If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.”
“When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.”
“It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.”

Source : Mike Lupica (2007). “Heat”, p.129, Penguin
“I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.”

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