"It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence."

-- Agnes Repplier

#Race Quotes #Intelligence Quotes #Depravity Quotes

“From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.”
“I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom”
“How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?”
“People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.”
“Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.”
“The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, â€œWhat's your alternative?â€ But even if you could provide the interrogator with a blueprint, this does not mean he would use it: in most cases he is not sincere in wanting to know. In fact this is a common offensive, a technique to reflect revolutionary anger and turn it against itself. Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need know is that the present system is destroying them.”
“Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.”
“Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera."”

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