"Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have."

-- Michael Haneke

#Thinking Quotes #Excellence Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Forget the brother and resume the man.”
“My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.”
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

Source : Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.113, Open Road Media
“You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.”
“When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.”
“We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.”
“I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.”
“It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.”

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