You cannot control your own population by force – Noam Chomsky
“You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.”
Noam Chomsky
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H. L. Mencken Quote on Marriage and Men
“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”
H. L. Mencken
Egoism is the Very Essence of a Noble Soul – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Walter Lippmann: The Opposition Between People and Big Business
“The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.”
Walter Lippmann
Irony of Social Responsibility – Quote by Noam Chomsky
“It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.”
Noam Chomsky
Walter Lippmann Quote on Reform and Virtue
“Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.”
Walter Lippmann
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