Intelligence and Politics: Walter Lippmann on the Republican Party
“Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.”
Walter Lippmann
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster – Noam Chomsky
“A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.”
Noam Chomsky
Learning Through Contact with People and Things – Ivan Illich
“What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?”
Ivan Illich
Idealism as the Curse of the World – Quote by H. L. Mencken
“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.”
H. L. Mencken
Stupidity and Gender Roles – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ivan Illich on Consumption and Expectations
“In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.”
Ivan Illich
H. L. Mencken on the Ten Commandments
“Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.”
H. L. Mencken
Women and Simple Tastes – Quote by H. L. Mencken
“Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.”
H. L. Mencken
When Women Kiss – Quote by H. L. Mencken
“When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.”
H. L. Mencken
Man is a beautiful machine – H. L. Mencken
“Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.”
H. L. Mencken