"Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals."

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Source : "Fictional character: Michael Arnold Travis". O Lucky Man!, www.imdb.com. 1973.

Jerzy Peterkiewicz

#Politics Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Opium Quotes

“I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.”
“I'll keep going till my face falls off.”
“I used practically all the money I had available.”
“Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.”

Source : Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.94, Cornell University Press
“I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”
“...even if gay marriage were legalized there would still be gay men who didn't want to marry, gay men no other gay men would want to marry, and gay men who didn't want to leave the priesthood in order to marry.”
“If youre going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, youve got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world youre living in.”

Source : "Scott Rudin is on a roll" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. February 08, 2008.
“You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.”

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