Thomas Sowell: Talkers are usually more articulate than doers
“Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.”
Thomas Sowell
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Compassion in Politics – Thomas Sowell Quote
“One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.”
Thomas Sowell
Quote by Neil Postman on Printing and Identity
“Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.”
Neil Postman
Childhood and Language – Neil Postman
“Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.”
Neil Postman
Neil Postman on Sexism and Censorship in Language
“Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone’s language as ‘sexist’ involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it.”
Neil Postman
Neil Postman Quote on the Scientific Method
“The scientific method,” Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, “is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.” That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry — is not even a ”subject ” — but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.”
Neil Postman
Walter Lippmann Quote on Civilization and Human Nature
“Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.”
Walter Lippmann
Democracy Principle of Opposition – Walter Lippmann
“And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is in fact indispensable.”
Walter Lippmann
Thomas Sowell on the Left, Compassion, and Dependency
“Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency.”
Thomas Sowell
Walter Lippmann Quote on Freedom and Freedom of Expression
“The American’s conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man’s way of life.”
Walter Lippmann