The Most Humane – Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
“What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One Has to Pay Dearly for Immortality – Friedrich Nietzsche
“One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cynical View on Marriage by H. L. Mencken
“Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.”
H. L. Mencken
The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor – Noam Chomsky
“The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.”
Noam Chomsky
Education in Wealthy Countries – Noam Chomsky
“The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.”
Noam Chomsky
Repression of Kurds in the 1990s – Noam Chomsky
“By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.”
Noam Chomsky
Quote by Noam Chomsky about Dr. Karel Culik, Mathematician and Linguist
“Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.”
Noam Chomsky
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche about Suicide and Consolation
“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote by Noam Chomsky on Arpanet and Nicaragua
“In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!”
Noam Chomsky
Germany and Polish Blood – Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.”
Friedrich Nietzsche