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"Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way to live. If you criticize or distance yourself from one, everyone assumes you have chosen to follow the other, because each of these approaches tends to divide the whole world into two basic groups. The moral conformists say: 'the immoral people -- the people who 'do their own thing' -- are the problem with the world, and moral people are the solution.' The advocates of self-discovery say: 'The bigoted peole -- the people who say, 'We have the Truth' -- are the problem with the world, and progressive people are the solution."
"All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here, that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around. "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers. Both favor alcohol and are against pot."
"There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration."
"Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
"Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism."
"I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated."
"He had liked to listen to the exotic (to a Belsey) chatter of business and money and practical politics; to hear that Equality was a myth, and Multiculturalism was a fatuous dream; he thrilled at the suggestion that Art was a gift from God, blessing only a handful of masters, and most Literature merely a veil for poorly reasoned left-wing ideologies."
Explore more quotes by Lord Acton
"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh."
"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."
"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."
"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."
"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
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