"As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those targeted by this culture of hate will become increasingly difficult. Rational debate will prove useless."

-- Chris Hedges

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“When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining these animals, the whole idea that we should enjoy the humiliating spectacle of an elephant or lion made to perform circus tricks shows a lack of respect for the animals as individuals.”
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.”
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
“This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars. We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!”
“If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.”
“The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.”
“Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.”
“Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.”

Source : Harold Clurman (1983). “The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties”, p.100, Da Capo Press

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