Granting that there is some truth to the theory that defects in society give rise to the emergence of criminals, I still maintain that those who use this theory as a defense of criminality are overlooking the fact that there are many people in this defective society who survive without resorting to crime. The argument to the contrary is pure sophistry. Akira Kurosawa
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
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Fulton J. Sheen
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
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Bob Black
The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people...
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David Richo
It is culture that is the bully."
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Sharon Lee
The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class society, or statism, or the society of the spectacle expropriates everyday life, the time of our lives. The real enemy is not an object apart from life. It is...
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Bob Black
More Quotes By Akira Kurosawa
To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.
People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature....
IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT?
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
If the Emperor had not delivered his [15 August 1945] address urging the Japanese people to lay down their swords–if that speech had been a call instead for the Honorable Death of the Hundred Million–those people on that street in SÅshigaya probably would have done...
