In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
¶ (Attributed)
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Peter Ustinov (b. 1921) English actor, author, director
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
¶ (Attributed)
I am rather unfriendly toward the Marxists, as I am towards those who persecute them, simply because they regard the unit by which one judges human behavior as the mass, and I really believe the individual is much more important than the mass. In fact, the mass is really composed of individuals that have momentarily lost their voice, which is a sad state of affairs.
¶ Spartacus, interview for Criterion Edition release
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
¶ Newspaper column, The European
Rarely cited. Referenced here, and reprinted in Ustinov Still At Large (1995).
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