"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."

Ideas, Democracy, Violence

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"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."

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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Ideas, Idea, Knowledge, Persistence, Thought

"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."

Henry Bessemer, English Scientist

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"Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free."

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

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"Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask."

Bryn Terfel, Welsh Musician

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"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Ideas, Idea, Life, Living, Values

"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

John Cage, American Composer

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"If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed."

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Leader

Ideas, Aggression, Force, State

"Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world."

Lionel Suggs, American Writer

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"A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas."

Trofim Lysenko, Russian Celebrity

Ideas, Evolution, Example, Fact

"Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable."

Dave Davies, British Musician

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"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."

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"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama."

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"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human."

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"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."

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"What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being."

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"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."

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"I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it."

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"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."

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