Iran’s Defensive Military Strategy – Noam Chomsky
“Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.”
Noam Chomsky
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Quote by H. L. Mencken on the Duel of the Sexes
“In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.”
H. L. Mencken
Liberty and Coercion – H. L. Mencken
“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by H. L. Mencken on Ideas and Truth
“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by H. L. Mencken on Rights and Privileges
“What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”
H. L. Mencken
Walter Lippmann Quote on Education and Defense
“We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.”
Walter Lippmann
Noam Chomsky on the dismantling of social security
“There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office – anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.”
Noam Chomsky
God is Dead – Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Conscience Quote by H. L. Mencken
“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”
H. L. Mencken
To Live is to Suffer – Friedrich Nietzsche
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
Friedrich Nietzsche