Producer and Consumer – Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Neil Postman Quote on Bronislaw Malinowski and Anthropology
“Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more “Malinowski” the more compelling the book. No “Malinowski”, and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.”
Neil Postman
Building Inclusive Narratives – Neil Postman
“Build an “inclusive narrative” that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the “the great debates”.”
Neil Postman
Quote by Neil Postman on Photography and Perception
“By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.”
Neil Postman
Quote by Neil Postman about Photography and Language
“You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.”
Neil Postman
Walter Lippmann on the Importance of Opposition
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
Walter Lippmann
Murray Rothbard on Economics and Uncertainty
“Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.”
Murray Rothbard
“One Seventh of Your Life” – Quote by Aldous Huxley
“One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.”
Aldous Huxley
Dependency and Welfare State by Thomas Sowell
“The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.”
Thomas Sowell
Goodness and Individual Responsibility – Aldous Huxley
“Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.”
Aldous Huxley