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“Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.”
Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (1991). “A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters”, p.317, Yale University Press
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“It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.”
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“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
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“I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to experience as transcendent. Because that's the point of literature, I think: to connect.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.”
Source : Source: theatrenow.wordpress.com
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“We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past -- whether he admits it or not -- can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.”
Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.18, A&C Black
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“The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.”
Source : Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”
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“We now have a better biological and psychological understanding of our moral thinking. The idea that we should do what maximizes happiness sounds very reasonable, but it often conflicts with our gut reactions. Philosophers have spent the last century or so finding examples where our intuition runs counter to this idea and have taken these as signals that something is wrong with this philosophy. But when you look at the psychology behind those examples, they become less compelling. An alternative is that our gut reactions are not always reliable.”
Source : Source: www.slate.com
