The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right … - Alexis de Tocqueville

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That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.

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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger.

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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

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As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. . . socialism is a new form of slavery.

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everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

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George Meany

One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.

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Krzysztof Kieslowski

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

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Aristotle

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

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Ursus Wehrli

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

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Edward Tufte

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

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