There is a supreme power – Quote by Prentice Mulford
“There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power”
Prentice Mulford
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Quote by Gore Vidal on State Power and Abuse
“There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.”
Gore Vidal
Quote by Gore Vidal on Protestant Fundamentalism and Theocracy
“Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.”
Gore Vidal
Stephen King Quote about Loneliness – The Most Awful Word
“Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
Stephen King
A person’s language resembles their life – Socrates
“A person’s language resembles their life.”
Sokrates
Wilhelm von Humboldt: Language as Expression of the Spirit of Peoples
“Language is, as it were, the outward manifestation of the spirit of peoples. One cannot think of the two as identical enough.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt
A Person Who Can Speak Four Languages – Germaine de Staël
“A person who can speak four languages is worth as much as four people.”
Germaine de Staël
Quote by Karl Philipp Moritz about Language and Chaos
“As long as man was still without language, the world must have been like a chaos for him.”
Karl Philipp Moritz
Neoliberal Democracy – Noam Chomsky
“Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.”
Noam Chomsky
Happiness and Virtue – Walter Lippmann
“Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.”
Walter Lippmann