"As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome."

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Source : Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.54, Metropolitan Books

Noam Chomsky

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“Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.”

Source : Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.14, Insight Editions
“Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.”
“I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected? Who am I to judge one's perspective?”

Source : Song: The 6th Sense, Album: Like Water For Chocolate, 2000
“If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!”
“With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.”
“Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.”
“Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn't even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it takes for light to travel to us. For eight minutes the world would still be bright and it would still feel warm. It was a year since my dad died and I could feel my eight minutes with him... were running out.”
“United need to start garnishing some points.”

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