"Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz."

-- Frederic Raphael

#Communication Quotes #Ethics Quotes #Arguing Quotes

“A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.”

Source : Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.
“I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.”
“It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.”
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
“We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.”
“My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.”
“Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.”

Source : Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan
“The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.”

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