"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People's Stick."

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Source : "Statism and Anarchy". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1873.

Mikhail Bakunin

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“The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.”
“You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.”
“David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that youâ€™re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and youâ€™re the sort of person who really just wants to sit in a chair and have it easy. When in fact there are parts of us, in a way, that are a lot more ambitious than that. And what we need, I thinkâ€”and Iâ€™m not saying Iâ€™m the person to do it. But I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that weâ€™re smart. And that thereâ€™s stuff that TV and moviesâ€”although theyâ€™re great at certain thingsâ€”cannot give us.”

Source : David Lipsky (2010). “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace”, p.71, Broadway Books
“Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.”
“I think every filmmaker wants... I don't know about every filmmaker. I certainly want my films to just exist. I want them to be judged for what they are and analyzed, accepted, criticized, whatever you want to call it, on their own terms, not as part of some mall-cop genre.”

Source : Interview with The A.V. Club, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2009.
“Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.”
“failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.”

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