"War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view."

-- Chris Hedges

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“But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.”
“My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.”

Source : Interview with Brecken Hancock, cwila.com.
“Some things, I feel like no, I never could have the depth of experience of their own music and culture - but sometimes if I'm collaborating with somebody, they're interested in me bringing my own stuff into their thing, and sometimes that works.”
“I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn't know what hit them and didn't know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn't been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvahs, and it was the first time since I'd had the measles that I was too sick to eat.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2012). “King Solomon's Mines”, p.86, Courier Corporation
“In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.”
“The tyrant is a child of pride.”
“My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.”

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