"War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated……" — Errol Morris
"War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops"
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31 Quotes by Errol Morris
Errol Morris has 31 quotes on this site.
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Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.
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I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
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Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape,…
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to…
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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
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A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
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Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the…
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
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Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to…
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We just need the laws to change - it's 2012," JWoww said to MTV News. "I want to see my…
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It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in…
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If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do…
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The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen…
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Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be…
— Mortimer Adler
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We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we…
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