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"I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth."
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"Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike."
"As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before."
"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it."
"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"
"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
"There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!"
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"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
"I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."
"When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them."
"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."
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