Write with the Door Closed – Quote by Stephen King
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
Stephen King
Author Archive for: Jan
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Quote on International Terrorism by Noam Chomsky
“The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.”
Noam Chomsky
“It Teaches You Too Much” – Quote by Noam Chomsky
“There’s a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.”
Noam Chomsky
State Capitalism and Privatized Profit – Noam Chomsky
“A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.”
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky on Sustained Resistance
“If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that’s something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can’t live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.”
Noam Chomsky
Perception and Morality by Walter Lippmann
“Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.”
Walter Lippmann
“Happiness is pleasure without regret” – Leo Tolstoy
“Happiness is pleasure without regret”
Leo Tolstoi
Hans-Georg Gadamer on Understanding and Being Right
“From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Quote by Walter Lippmann on the Role of Moralists
“The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.”
Walter Lippmann
Lafayette on Liberty and Service – Quote
“Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.”
Lafayette