Mark Poster quotes

“Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.”
-- Mark Poster

#Government Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.”
-- Mark Poster

Source : Mark Poster (2006). “Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines”, p.121, Duke University Press

#Doe Quotes #Way Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.”
-- Mark Poster

#Class Quotes #People Quotes #Film Quotes

“Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.”
-- Mark Poster

Source : Mark Poster (1978). “Critical Theory of the Family”, New York : Seabury Press

#Today Quotes #Vehemence Quotes #Equal Quotes

“So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?”
-- Mark Poster

#Relation Quotes #Aesthetics Quotes

“Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.”

“It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.”

“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”

“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”

“The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.

“Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.”

Source : Alan Cumming (2014). “Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir”, p.247, Canongate Books

“The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.”

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”

“Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”

“I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.”