H. L. Mencken Quote on Truth and Lies
“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
H. L. Mencken
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Homo monolinguis: Quote by Ivan Illich on Monolingualism
“The idea of Homo monolinguis – one-languaged man – the idea of children having to grow into one system before we confuse them with another mental system, is an idea with which, unfortunately, many people are brought up now.”
Ivan Illich
Platitude Quote by H. L. Mencken – Definition and Meaning
“Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.”
H. L. Mencken
The Impact of Poetry and Narrative – H. L. Mencken
“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.”
H. L. Mencken
Ivan Illich on Self-Help and Autonomous Life
“I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable… self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life.”
Ivan Illich
Job Security in the 1930s – Noam Chomsky
“In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.”
Noam Chomsky
Ivan Illich on School, Life and Custodial Care
“School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.”
Ivan Illich
Anarchist Critique by Noam Chomsky
“A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.”
Noam Chomsky
Harry Browne Quote on Voting and Political Promises
“I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.”
Harry Browne
“Jesus was an anarchist savior” – Quote by Ivan Illich
“Jesus was an anarchist savior. That’s what the Gospels tell us.”
Ivan Illich