
On playing Althea Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Linehan (December 1996)
1996–2005
"God Part II"
Lyrics, Rattle And Hum(1988)
Context: I don't believe in rape. But everytime She passes by, wild thoughts escape
On playing Althea Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Linehan (December 1996)
1996–2005
“And like a passing thought, she fled
In light away.”
The Vision.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Address at Columbia University (1991)
Context: Ibn Rushd's ideas were silenced in their time. And throughout the Muslim world today, progressive ideas are in retreat. Actually Existing Islam reigns supreme, and just as the recently destroyed "Actually Existing Socialism" of the Soviet terror-state was horrifically unlike the utopia of peace and equality of which democratic socialists have dreamed, so also is Actually Existing Islam a force to which I have never given in, to which I cannot submit.
There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.