Quote by H. L. Mencken about Government and Liberty
“All government, of course, is against liberty.”
H. L. Mencken
Author Archive for: Jan
Entries by Jan
Ivan Illich on Consumer Society and Schooling
“We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.”
Ivan Illich
Satirical Quote by H. L. Mencken on Political Campaigns
“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.”
H. L. Mencken
Ivan Illich on Medicalization and the Lifelong Patient
“The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.”
Ivan Illich
Health and Mental Attitude – Quote by Ivan Illich
“Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.”
Ivan Illich
John F. Kennedy’s Powerful Quote on Truth, Myths, and Critical Thinking
“For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
John F. Kennedy
Friedrich Nietzsche Quote: Why People Often Avoid the Truth
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach on Contentment
“To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Evil in the Name of Good
“Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quote About Willpower
“Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach