Empires Quote by Adam Curtis

We live in a time when all elites, whether on the left or the right, believe in rigid rules that say there is no…

— Adam Curtis

So much of the language that surrounds us - from things like economics, management theory, and the algorithms built into computer systems - appears…

— Adam Curtis

Fred Hoyle was one of the first scientists to become famous on television and radio. It was because he told a dramatic story about…

— Adam Curtis

In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border, everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them.…

— Adam Curtis

I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally…

— Adam Curtis

I have always wanted to make a series of films which would be like an 'emotional history' that conveys what it feels like to…

— Adam Curtis

BP is accused of destroying the wildlife and coastline of America, but if you look back into history, you find that BP did something…

— Adam Curtis

In many cruise ships, there are hundreds of workers from some of the poorest countries on earth who are paid minute amounts of actual…

— Adam Curtis

Journalists, whose job is to pull back and tell dramatic stories that bring power into focus, find it impossible because things like economic theory…

— Adam Curtis

There is a lurking sense that there is a kind of seedy corruption underlying a lot of public life today. But while journalism does…

— Adam Curtis

Tyler Kent was a horrible man. He was a rabid anti-communist who believed that the Jews had been behind the Russian Revolution.

— Adam Curtis

Ever since the economic crisis in 2008, millions of people have accepted cuts in all sorts of things - from real wages and living…

— Adam Curtis