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Arthur Miller1915–2005

There’s too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It’s part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad.

Arthur Miller on power

1963 interview, used in The Century of the Self (2002)

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