"Classic was Jimmy Savileâ€™s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savileâ€™s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we consider the regulation of the media and the legal right to privacy it is worth reflecting on how the Savile scandal happened. It happened because the aura of Sir Jimmyâ€™s celebrity protected him from scrutiny by the press."

-- Daniel Finkelstein

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“It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.”

Source : Karl Popper (2013). “All Life is Problem Solving”, p.92, Routledge
“My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.”
“To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.”
“Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.”
“Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.”
“He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him?”
“As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.”
“And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?”

Source : "Fictional chracter: Achille Weber". "Idiot's Delight", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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