"The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others."

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Source : Arthur James Balfour (1895). “The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology”

Arthur Balfour

#Atmosphere Quotes #Climate Quotes #Belief Quotes

“What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.”
“I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.”

Source : "From musical to memoir, actor Anthony Rapp comes up with dramatic making-of 'Rent' story and moving personal one" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. February 21, 2006.
“When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.”
“Friendship? Yes Please.”
“SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?”
“You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.”
“Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.”
“I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.”

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