Claudio Mosse

“The real tragedy, however, was certainly the Jews’. Their dominance became a target for wave after wave of vicious anti-Semites—from fire-and-brimstone evangelicals in the teens and early twenties who demanded the movies’ liberation from “the hands of the devil and 500 un-Christian Jews” to Red-baiters in the forties for whom Judaism was really a variety of communism and the movies their chief form of propaganda. The sum of this anti-Semitic demonology was that the Jews, by design or sheer ignorance, had used the movies to undermine traditional American values.”
― Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

“RELIGION AS A word points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage; where he senses meanings no less overwhelming because they can be only hinted at in myth and ritual; where he glimpses a destination that he can never know fully until he reaches it.”
― Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner – The Acclaimed Novelist-Preacher on Imagination

“Andersen employees studied not only technical audit procedures, but also a personal code of conduct—a code so detailed that it included everything from the company dress code to required daily appearances in the “correct” business-lunch restaurants.”
― Daniel Diermeier, Reputation Rules: Strategies for Building Your Company's Most Valuable Asset