I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even… — William Thomas Beckford Copy Share Image
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since most people only pay lip service to the injustices of the world, because one cannot affect the outcome of an atrocity… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit it is not noticed. For… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
One thing America truly does stand for is a million different ways of living. But while we enjoy the lives we have,… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
The U.S. has represented throughout its history a commitment to human rights and the law - shining a light on what happened… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image