Tim Robbins Quotes
When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.
Rensin, David. "Playboy Interview: Tim Robbins." Playboy, vol. 44, no. 10, Oct. 1997.
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims. However, we see in Spinoza the observations and foundations of what would become American and then international views of human rights.
Islamic modernists like Serageldin are many among the educated Muslims but their views are often drowned out by the violence and extremist statements of the fundamentalists.
This became a critically important quotation a half century after it was made. Judge Hand articulated the majority Western and Judeo-Christian value proposition between dissent and heresy. However, for the majority of the Islamic world, the reverse represents the majority value that is held. There is a minority in the West that agrees that avoidance of heresy is paramount and a minority of the Muslim world that agrees that the protection of dissent is the more important value, but the two civilizations were at odds in the 20th and 21st centuries. However, Islam is about 600 years younger than Christianity. 600 years ago, the Christian world agreed with the Muslim society and prevention of heresy was the more important value. The Reformation and the enlightenment followed by the world example of America produced a transformation and this may occur in the majority of the Islamic world in time.
Timothy Francis Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and musician. He is known for portraying Andy Dufresne in the film The Shawshank Redemption, and has won an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards for his roles in the films Mystic River (2003), Short Cuts (1993) and The Player (1992).
