Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.
Roland Joffe
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- Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.
- Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
- I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
- When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.
- Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.