Category: philosopher
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato
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I have been – I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.
Noam Chomsky
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In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
Noam Chomsky
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A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato
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The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.
Noam Chomsky
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx