"The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity."

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Eric Hoffer

#Inhumanity Quotes #Inherent Quotes #Absolute Power Quotes

“The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.”
“Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats - all of it.”
“Right now I'm in 'Twilight' and I go around to signings and there are people screaming and crying, and it's so surreal. I know that when this is over in a month or two and whenever 'Twilight''s no longer relevant, that doesn't live on for me. It's because of this. It's not very often that this happens for people.”
“...I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, I'm the father of my family and I've got to earn all the money I can.”

Source : Mary Pickford (1955). “Sunshine and shadow”
“I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things, or be more confrontational about something shielded. There is this process of layering in performance.”
“Swimmin in the money come and find me, NEMO.”
“You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.”
“There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.”

Source : "On Sir John A. Macdonald". Toronto Star, October 9, 1964.

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