Regis Debray quotes
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“The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.”
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“Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.”
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“Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.”
-- Regis DebraySource : "Revolution in the revolution". Interview with Andrew Joscelyne, www.wired.com. January 1, 1995.
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“Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.”
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“We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.”
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“God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.”
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“Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.”
-- Regis DebraySource : Régis Debray (2004). “God: An Itinerary”, p.185, Verso
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“Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.”
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