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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
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"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau."
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"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
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"The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution."
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"There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. Those verbal associations are always vain for the vital purpose of constraining the tyrant."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."
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"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."
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"I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years."
Film
"Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film."
Music
"I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts."
Communication
"Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?"
History
"Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day."
Education
"It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time."
Time
"If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it."
People
"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."
Communication
"I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result."
History
"Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie."
Performance
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