David Webb Peoples

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    I guess you know, Bob, that if I see you again, I’m just going to start shooting and figure it’s self-defense.
    —David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman)

    He was a superior man. He did not value his bodily life in comparison with ideal things. He did not recognize unjust human laws, but resisted them as he was bid. For once we are lifted out of the trivialness and dust of politics into the region of truth and manhood.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.
    —David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Roy Batty, Blade Runner, to the film’s protagonist as he dangles perilously from a beam (1982)

    History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
    But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)