"Quotes
for You" Archive
I never dared be radical when
young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
What the public wants is the image
of passion, not passion itself.
I will act as if what I do makes a
difference.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
The smart way to keep people
passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow
very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident
views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time
the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of
the debate.
- Noam Chomsky, Linguist and Social
Critic
If we discovered that we had only
five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be
occupied by people calling other people to stammer thatthey loved them.
Freedom is what you do with what's
been done to you.
He who climbs Mt. Fuji once is a
wise man: he who climbs it twice is a fool.
Three things in life are good in
little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt, and hesitation.
...crisis simultaneously loosens
the stereotypes and provides incremental data necessary for a fundamental paradigm shift.
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