There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
If those in charge of our society - politicians corporate executives and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress because once you are truly educated you will not ask for power. You will take it.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Personality has power to uplift power to depress power to curse and power to bless.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.
There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.
This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration which was a positive thing and they had some issues that they wanted to press but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.
Generally I'm a pretty positive but like any other working person if the jobs aren't coming in I do get depressed.
Facing the press is not easy but because you have to go you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do find the joy in it and express yourself through your passion.
I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.
Most people get their politics obviously from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling or about politics and idea is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
As a society I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
Well a lot of politics is communicating with people and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also being a comedian you're under pressure.
I look for the humanity in people however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.
I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics because if I do I have to be responsible for my decision.