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I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines. ”
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. ”
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. ”
People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. ”
You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it. ”
Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through. ”
We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated. ”
Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions. ”
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. ”
An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day. ”