"As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized."

-- Jason Stearns

#Evil Quotes #Regimes Quotes #Interest Quotes

“The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions in the flow of time, and fixing them in a 2 dimensional image, creates a new context for the elements of the photograph...”
“He gave me something that day... something I wanted to protect. And when it was taken from me I learned how small I was. I vowed to never again care for someone so much, I couldn't bear to lose them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Genjo Sanzo". "Gensomaden Saiyuki", www.imdb.com. 2000–2001.
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
“Never go anywhere without condiments. Condiments are our friends.”
“Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.”

Source : Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.513
“Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.”
“Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance of eugenics, which was overtly founded on Darwinian principles. Some eugenicists began advocating euthanasia and infanticide for the disabled. On a parallel track, some prominent Darwinists argued that human racial competition and war is part of the Darwinian struggle for existence. Hitler imbibed these social Darwinist ideas, blended in virulent anti-Semitism, and--there you have it: Holocaust”
“Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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