C. S. Lewis Quotes

C. S. Lewis: To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote ... | Citatis

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

C. S. Lewis

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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
- Live
- Kids
- Hope
It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

Zeljko Ivanek
- People
- World
- Why
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

Carl Bernstein
- Great
- New York
- Employees
I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

Barry Jenkins
- Up
- Small
- Movies
It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

Wendie Malick
- People
- Time
- Feeling
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

Jackie Robinson
- Political
- Baseball