"In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself."

-- Sidney Hook

#Democracy Quotes #Faces Quotes #Contrast Quotes

“Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.”
“You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.”
“Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.”
“So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.”
“In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.”
“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good.”

Source : Review of "Van Helsing", reelviews.net, 2004.
“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world”

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