Quote by Noam Chomsky about False Prophets in the Bible
“The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.”
Noam Chomsky
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Quotation on Alimony by H. L. Mencken
“Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.”
H. L. Mencken
Noam Chomsky on the Role of Chemistry
“Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn’t reduce to physics. So it’s just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.”
Noam Chomsky
The Most Humane – Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
“What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ivan Illich on Nationalism and Consumption
“Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.”
Ivan Illich
Quote About the Small and the Great by Eduardo Galeano
“Always in all my books I’m trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown – and the pettiness of the big.”
Eduardo Galeano
One Has to Pay Dearly for Immortality – Friedrich Nietzsche
“One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cynical View on Marriage by H. L. Mencken
“Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.”
H. L. Mencken
Harry Browne on Segregation and the Civil Rights Act
“[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these state laws, but failed. So they appealed to the federal government, which responded with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But this federal law didn’t simply repeal state laws compelling segregation. It also prohibited voluntary segregation. What had been mandatory became forbidden. Neither before nor after the Civil Rights Act were people free to make their own decisions about who they associated with.”
Harry Browne
Ivan Illich on Energy, Dependence and Autonomy
“Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and “cold turkey”-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.”
Ivan Illich