Roger EbertThinkers

Emotion is distinguished from the intellect in that one's intellect may be confused but one's emotions will never lie to oneself.

Fascism is created by nothing more than by the threat of freedom.

Intellect may be confused, but one's emotions will never lie to oneself.

Political correctness is antithetical to criticism and art (the function of which is to break boundaries) insofar as it produces a rigid feeling that one has to keep one's ideas within very narrow boundaries lest one offend someone.

Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your way of looking at things within very narrow boundaries or else you'll offend someone.

Reading is a medium between mind and mind whereby, being made only of words, it does not impose the barrier of any other medium.