"So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness"

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Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.60, A&C Black

Peter Weiss

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“A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.”
“When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is just, yet refuse to defend it--at that moment you begin to die. And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about justice.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Dec 01, 2010
“I've been streaky throughout my career, but I've been trying to become a more consistent hitter.”
“We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where there is fairness and equality -- when every man and country is treated and viewed equally. My father believes that there is no such thing as justice because all his life he has witnessed the tipping of the scales. We must change this widespread mentality by making equality a reality, not just something we read and hear about on the TV and in literature.”
“We are what we are because we have been what we have been.”

Source : Sigmund Freud (2016). “Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (Annotated)”, p.25, Sigmund Freud
“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.”

Source : John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.628, World Scientific
“I'd always loved hip-hop.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“How do you invent a religion?â€ Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. â€œYou say, â€˜God told me the following,â€™ and then wait for people to sign up.”

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