"Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything."

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Source : James P. Hogan (1997). “Paths to Otherwhere”, Pocket Books

James P. Hogan

#People Quotes #Needs Quotes #Normal Quotes

“What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule.”
“Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.”
“Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.”
“I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.”
“Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.”
“All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.”
“Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.”

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