a world controlled by fear cannot create beauty;
nor can it evolve in concept, advancement in technology, original thought or way of being.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear: Bertrand
Russell: English logician and philosopher 1872-1970
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Fear always springs from ignorance: Ralph Waldo Emerson : American lecturer, poet, and essayist, 1803-1882
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Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being: Ellen Key
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Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes: Murray Edelman
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Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid. : Bob Dylan : American folksinger, b.1941
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You have to show violence the way it is. If you don’t show it realistically, then that’s immoral and harmful. If you don’t upset people, then that’s obscenity: Roman Polanski
posted by at large in santa fe @ 7:10 AM
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Fear must always create a "black" and a "white," or a difference between what is to be feared versus what is not. That's why an "other" is always necessary--something mysterious that we aren't too familiar with in our every day lives. I think it is hard to do that, for example, with the Muslim community here in the UK because they aren't the "other" here that they are classified as in the US.
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