"The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified."

-- Oliver DeMille

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“In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of they hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is not. Now is the time to act and to act quickly. Fight cunning with cunning and might with might”
“We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions.”

Source : Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Gentleman's Agreement”, p.106, Open Road Media
“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”
“The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully itâ€™s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we canâ€™t predict.”
“A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to the people to touch their souls in this selfish world full of lies.”
“Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.”
“If something is meant to be, it's gonna work. If two people believe in something really strongly, I think a longdistance relationship is easy. They just make the time to be together. And you have to remember that any relationship is going to be hard...mostly because you're two different people and you have to figure stuff out.”

Source : "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.
“If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.”

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