And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the struggle against societal injustices and the moral strength found in resistance.
Pier Paolo Pasolini's quote speaks to the notion of resilience in the face of societal humiliation. He emphasizes that even during periods of despair, there exists a form of moral enlightenment and defiance that can guide individuals through challenging times, denoting a struggle that is both personal and collective in the context of a broader existential crisis.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech on social justice to inspire action against oppression.
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.
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.
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.
Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.
The notion of humans as inherently rational beings has been not only trashed in economics, but trashed in all the best research on moral decision-making.
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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