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"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."
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"I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it."

"There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake."

"It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country."

"Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them."
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

"Quite like religious fundamentalism, educational fundamentalism is based upon bookish creeds created by the self-proclaimed authority figures of the system. And this very fundamentalism is the cause of all the growing conflicts between the student-body of the education society and the teachers running that society. These conflicts further become tools of exploitation in the hands of a handful of war-mongering, authoritarian, blood-sucking politicians."

"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."

"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."

"Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act."

"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."

"A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion."

"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever."

"Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!"
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