"The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."

-- Izaak Walton

#Learning Quotes #Loss Quotes #Persons Quotes

“The substitute for knowledge is money.”
“The state is captive to vested interests.”
“We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.”

Source : "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.
“The noble man is only God's image.”

Source : "Genoveva" by Johann Ludwig Tieck,
“There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew. They're not getting a whole lot of money, so you know they are not there because they want to get rich. Instead, they are there because they want to make a movie. In the bigger films, I remember when I used to do those, it's just a job for a lot of people, so there is less of an intense energy devoted to the whole project.”
“It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time -- but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms . . .”

Source : Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann
“We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.”
“We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.”

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