From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-12-17:
"I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.
"If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us --- the dignity of man."
-- Harold Pinter, in "Art, Truth & Politics", Nobel Lecture, 7 December 2005.
(submitted to the mailing list by Jeffrey L. Copeland)