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...GOVERNMENT. Ultimately, in a democracy all must work together. The Prime Minister will have to be the guiding factor . . . Human society must be human, not a mixture of animals, and we are 90% animals today, which is not a very pleasant thought but it is a fact. Passions belong only to animals, and if human material is superior, then we have to control passions, which should be used for proper purposes, just as steam has to be utilized for energy, not for scalding people. Government will have to set an example in its own actions. You see, to make people...
...Wonderful Crook evokes a feeling for the complexity of human behavior without resorting to cliche or to the overdramatic drawn out dialogues that belong on the stage, not on the screen. It presents a picture of bourgeois life that ultimately is dark, though not without hope, and certainly not without mystery and adventure...
Scientific discoveries belong to the public as well as to science. What the public does with them is the responsibility of society as a whole. It is as absurd to blame scientists as it is to praise them for social phenomena. If we pursued that form of logic, we would find ourselves making Thomas Edison a national hero for describing the nature of electricity, and then trying him posthumously for the deaths of all people who were ever electrocuted...
...first arm to rise would belong to Ernestine, the Mussolini of the switchboard. "This is the telephone company," she might announce. "We are not subject to city, state or federal legislation. We are omnipotent." Or: "Here at the telephone company we handle 84 billion calls a year, serving everyone from Presidents and kings to the scum of the earth...
...raised to defend the dissidents of the East raised themselves [to defend] not only my rights but the rights of this country." Nonetheless, he added emotionally, "We do not hesitate in condemning with all our energy violations [of liberty and democracy] wherever they may occur, even when those responsible belong to parties that affirm socialist ideals. In the systems of socialist countries, what is missing is democracy...