Category: philosopher
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Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.
Noam Chomsky
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Thomas Carlyle
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin
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Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.
Noam Chomsky
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne
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In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Henry David Thoreau
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The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.
Noam Chomsky
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
Soren Kierkegaard