Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential...

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...