Noam Chomsky on Private Airlines and Military Aircraft
“Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.”
Noam Chomsky
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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: When One Has Not Had a Good Father
“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Telephone, Communication and Privacy – Quote by Ivan Illich
“The telephone lets anybody say what he wants to the person of his choice; he can conduct business, express love, or pick a quarrel. It is impossible for bureaucrats to define what people say to each other on the phone, even though they can interfere with – or protect – the privacy of their exchange.”
Ivan Illich
The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor – Noam Chomsky
“The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.”
Noam Chomsky
Education in Wealthy Countries – Noam Chomsky
“The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.”
Noam Chomsky
Philosophical Insight by H. L. Mencken on Pain and Humor
“There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.”
H. L. Mencken
Repression of Kurds in the 1990s – Noam Chomsky
“By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.”
Noam Chomsky
Quote About Marriage and Relationships by Leo Tolstoi
“There is trouble with a wife, but it’s even worse with a woman who is not a wife.”
Leo Tolstoi
Quote by Rudolf Virchow on Prophylaxis and Palliation
“My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.”
Rudolf Virchow
Ivan Illich on School and Self-Directed Learning
“Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory – as we see at this moment in the United States – create a dazed population, a ‘learned’ population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before.”
Ivan Illich