“Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.”
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 150
“If a man be subject to the authority of another, he can at least ask that it not be an occasion for glee.”
Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXV, Section 2, p. 293 (1985)
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