"As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man."

-- Ernst Fischer

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“In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.”
“I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?”
“When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.”

Source : "National Broadcast Exclusive: Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Speaks From Exile". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 10, 2005.
“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”
“For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.”
“Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.”
“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”
“Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.”

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