"Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories."

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Source : Israel Zangwill (1898). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”

Israel Zangwill

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“Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.”
“One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.”
“Our global institutional arrangements - the basic ground rules that govern our world economy - are human-made. They don't exist naturally, nor are they God-given. We make these rules, those of the WTO [World Trade Organization] Treaty for instance, which fill tens of thousands of pages. These words have been strung together by human beings and are also interpreted and enforced by human beings.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty- in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub-our immediate duty is to stop it.”
“When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.”

Source : "Sheriff Dearborn Hates Them Vamps". Interiview with Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. May 12, 2009.
“One's native land!?there should one live! there die!”
“Authority and example lead the world.”
“Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.”

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