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"Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit."
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"The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other."

"People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts."

"To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who are not Muslims, are not just object of extreme detestation, they are, at the worst, lesser humans of false religions. This is not religion my friend. This is primitiveness at its worst."

"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

"Since the beginning of time, the ignorant have always screamed the loudest...They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus."

"Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit."
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"To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know."

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."

"Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! À bas l'originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight."

"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."

"Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear."

"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."
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