Oscar Wilde Quote on Lessons in Prison and Acceptance
“One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.”
Oscar Wilde
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“Be Careful Who You Choose as Your Enemy” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that’s who you become most like.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage and Conversation – Nietzsche’s Advice on Marriage
“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
True Learning and Individual Truth – Umberto Eco
“True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.”
Umberto Eco
Quote on Remorse and Choices by Umberto Eco
“You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.”
Umberto Eco
Democracy and Freedom Are Essential for Survival – Noam Chomsky
“In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.”
Noam Chomsky
Quote by Noam Chomsky about Rhetoric
“I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.”
Noam Chomsky
Quote on Economics and Weapons by Eduardo Galeano
“From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the “gross criminal product.””
Eduardo Galeano
Self-Respect Quote by H. L. Mencken
“Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by Noam Chomsky on Fear and Control
“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.”
Noam Chomsky