Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche about Suicide and Consolation
“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Quote by Noam Chomsky on Arpanet and Nicaragua
“In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!”
Noam Chomsky
Germany and Polish Blood – Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote by H. L. Mencken on Baltimore’s Culinary Variety
“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.”
H. L. Mencken
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
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
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