Étienne de La Boétie Quotes: Why Tyrants Are Only as Powerful as We Allow!
“The tyrants are only great because we are on our knees.”
Étienne de La Boétie
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Any colour – so long as it’s black. – Henry Ford
“Any colour – so long as it’s black.”
Henry Ford
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote: Why Being Well-Adjusted to a Sick Society Is Not Healthy
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Modern Science and Objectivity – Walter Lippmann
“The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.”
Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann on Political Uncertainty in Governments
“In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.”
Walter Lippmann
Gerald Hüther on the Importance of Strong Father Figures
“If we want strong, loving men in society, we must also give little boys the chance to grow up with strong, loving fathers!”
Gerald Hüther
Noam Chomsky Quote on Nuremberg Laws and American Presidents
“If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.”
Noam Chomsky
Thoughts as Shadows of Our Feelings – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote by H. L. Mencken on Theology and Knowledge
“For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.”
H. L. Mencken
Self-Control in Debates – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.”
Friedrich Nietzsche