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We would like to apologize for the way in which
politicians are represented in this program. It was never our intention to
imply that politicians are weak-kneed, political time servers who are
concerned more with their personal vendettas and private power struggles
than the problems of government, nor to suggest that at any point that
they sacrifice their credibility by denying free debate on vital matters
in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before the well-being of
the people they supposedly represent nor to imply at any stage that they
are squabbling little toadies without an ounce of concern for the vital
social problems of today. Nor do we intend that viewers should consider
them as crabby ulcerous little self-seeking vermin with furry legs and an
excessive addiction to alcohol and certain explicit sexual practices which
some people might find offensive.
We are sorry if this impression has come across.
- Monty Python's Flying Circus |
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man,
in as much as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
-Erich Fromm
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