Sunday, December 5, 2010

political quotes from Tania Bruguera's website

Ideas that enter the mind under fire
remain there securely and for ever.
-Leon Trotsky.

He who has overcome his fears will truly
be free.
-Aristotle.

High principles have only to be
accompanied by patience, consideration, a
sense of measure and understanding for
others.
-Václav Havel.

It is an error to divide people into the
living and the dead: there are people who are
dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive.
-Yevgeny Zamyatin.

The unexamined life is not worth living.
-Plato.


It was patriotism, not communism, that
inspired me.
-Ho Chi Minh.


Even a purely moral act that has no hope
of any immediate and visible political effect
can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain
in political significance.
-Václav Havel.


The end may justify the means as long as
there is something that justifies the end.
-Leon Trotsky.

What is needed in politics is not the
ability to lie but rather the sensibility to
know when, where, how and to whom to say
things.
-Václav Havel.

He who knows how to flatter also knows
how to slander.
-Napoleon Bonaparte.

Equality is the result of human
organization. We are not born equal.
-Hannah Arendt.

The people have always some champion whom
they set over them and nurse into greatness.
…This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs; when he first appears
he is a protector.
-Plato.

Love is a function of death.
-Yevgeny Zamyatin.

All men by nature desire to know.
-Aristotle.

The best argument against democracy is a
five-minute conversation with the average
voter.
-Winston Churchill.

But it is not true at all that a
politician cannot do without lying or
intriguing. That is sheer nonsense, often
spread by those who want to discourage people
from taking an interest in public affairs.
-Václav Havel.


We have nothing to hide from one another.
-Yevgeny Zamyatin.

The most radical revolutionary will
become a conservative the day after the
revolution.
-Hannah Arendt.

It's clear that happiness happens
when there are no more desires.
-Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may
be equal, and equals that they may be
superior. Such is the state of mind which
creates revolutions.
-Aristotle.

 The most important political office is
that of the private citizen.
-Louis D. Brandeis.

Any one can get angry — that is
easy — or give or spend money; but to
do this to the right person, to the right
extent, at the right time, with the right
motive, and in the right way, that is not for
every one, nor is it easy.
-Aristotle.



TANIA BRUGUERA 
Readings:

The Art of Winning
-Arthur Schopenhauer




Giordano Bruno, el forastero del universo
-Laura Vit



Utopia
-Thomas More



Brave New World
-Aldous Huxley



Island
-Aldous Huxley



Fugitive Days: A Memoir
-Bill Ayers



The Promise of Politics
-Hannah Arendt



Le Corps Utopique, Les Hétérotopies
-Michel Foucault



Instructions pour une prise d'armes
-Auguste Blanqui



We
-Yevgeny Zamyatin



The City of Sun
-Tommasso Campanella



La insurrección que viene
-Comité invisible



Javier Cercas
-Anatomía de un instante


Films:


Gandhi
-Richard Attenborough


A Huey P. Newton Story
-Spike Lee


The Weather Underground
-Sam Green, Bill Siegel


Trahir
-Radu Mihaileanu


The Middle of the World
-Vicente Amorium


L'armée du Crime
-Robert Guédiguian


Cidade de Deus
-Fernando Meirelles


Johny Mad Dog
-Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire


Entre les murs
-Laurent Cantet


Sin Nombre
-Cary Joji Fukunaga


La Vida Loca
-Christian Poveda


Cidade dos Homes
-Fernando Meirelles


Cría cuervos
-Carlos Saura


V for Vendetta
-James McTeigue


1984
-Michael Radford


The people vs Larry Flynt
-Milos Forman


L'avocat de la terreur
-Barbet Schroeder


The kiss of the spider woman
-Hector Babenco


Farewell My Concubine
-Chen Kaige


Les Femmes de L'hombre
-Jean-Paul Salomé


The message - the story of Islam
-Moustapha Akkad


At Home Among Strangers
-Nikita Mikhalkov


A Slave of Love
-Nikita Mikhalkov


Five Evenings
-Nikita Mikhalkov


Indigènes
-Rachid Bouchareb


Che
-Steven Soderbergh


Alexandre the Great
-Robert Rossen


By the People - the election of Barack Obama
-Amy Rice, Alicia Sams


The Mission
-Roland Joffé


Les Patriotes
-Eric Rochant


Katyn
-Andrzej Wajda


Cina
-Michelangelo Antonioni


Cry Freedoom
-Richard Attenborough


In the name of the father
-Jim Sheridan


Blood Sunday
- Paul Greengrass


Favela Rising
-Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary


Milk
-Gus Van Sant


The Reader
-Stephen Daldry


Good night and good luck
-George Clooney


Nightwatching
-Peter Greenaway


Caligula
-Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione


La faute à Fidel
-Julie Gravas


Les trois vie de Rita Vogt
-Volker Schlöndorff


Une execution ordinaire
-Marc Dugain


L'affaire Clearstream (raccontée á un ouvrier de chez Daewoo)
-Denis Robert, Pascal Lorent


Les dissimulateurs
-Denis Robert, Pascal Lorent


The Take
-Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis


Une execution ordinaire
-Marc Dugain


Les trois vies de Rita Vogt
-Volker Schlöndorff


Die Welle
-Dennis Gansel


The U.S. vs John Lennon
-David Leaf, John Scheinfeld


White dog
-Samuel Fuller


General Idi Amin Dada (a self-portrait)
-Barbet Schroeder's


La Haine
-Mathieu Kassovitz


Z
-Costa-Gravas


God's Country
-Louis Malle

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