I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. … - Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the same religion practice its precepts. . . by agreeing to this duty.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

Believe, Happy, Hope, Men, Politician, Politicians

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An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.

Artist, Mouths, Open, Passionate, Unselfish

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

Pleasure, Refuse, Scandalized, Think, Thinking

When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

Like, People, Reality, Symbolic, Tree

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.

Evil, Good, Soul, Sweet

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

Belief, May, Nostalgia, Unbeliever