"The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy."

-- Robert Dickson Crane

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“Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.”

Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”
“The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to preserve life? What does it say when the artificial and real animal can have the same attraction to people?”

Source : "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.
“If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.”
“One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.”
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.”
“People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”
“If those people survive, others will be emboldened. If they don't, others will be intimidated.”
“Peace is a resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war .”

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