Quote by H. L. Mencken about the Value of Money
“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”
H. L. Mencken
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“The World Is Organised by War” – Eduardo Galeano
“The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.”
Eduardo Galeano
“Turn the World Over” – Quote by Eduardo Galeano
“If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn’t we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?”
Eduardo Galeano
“The Body Is a Fiesta” – Quote by Eduardo Galeano
“The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.”
Eduardo Galeano
Ivan Illich on Medicine, Health, and Commercialization
“The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.”
Ivan Illich
Quote on Ignorance and Global Awareness by Eduardo Galeano
“I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It’s quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.”
Eduardo Galeano
Noam Chomsky on the Uniformity of U.S. Media
“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.”
Noam Chomsky
Alternative Stories and Social Change – Ivan Illich
“If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.”
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich on School, Knowledge and Confinement
“Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.”
Ivan Illich
Quote About the Past and History by Eduardo Galeano
“If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.”
Eduardo Galeano