Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits.

[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.

I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to go back as how things were before.' I recognize how I am right now, and I will continue to live on.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.