If you’re teaching today what you taught five years ago – Noam Chomsky
“If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.”
Noam Chomsky
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Opera in English – H. L. Mencken
“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”
H. L. Mencken
The Best Weapon Against an Enemy – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Only Cure for Contempt is Counter-Contempt – H. L. Mencken Quote
“The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by H. L. Mencken on the Human Mind and Its Misdirections
“Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by H. L. Mencken about God and gods
“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.”
H. L. Mencken
Success and Conservatism – Walter Lippmann Quote
“Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.”
Walter Lippmann
Quote by H. L. Mencken on Morality and Human Actions
“Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.”
H. L. Mencken
Puritanism Quote by H. L. Mencken
“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
H. L. Mencken
President Eisenhower on Campaign of Hatred Against US – Noam Chomsky Quote
“Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.”
Noam Chomsky