It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.
Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.
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When the cold war ended, I thought, as no doubt did many others, that the age of ideology was over. Again like many others, I underestimated man's need for transcendence, which, in the absence of religion or high culture, he is most likely to find in a political or social cause.
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It is, of course, a common prejudice that censorship is bad for art and therefore always unjustified: though, if this were so, mankind would have little in the way of an artistic heritage and we should now be living in an artistic golden age.
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