Category: philosopher
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Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.
Noam Chomsky
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
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The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.
Noam Chomsky
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
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Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
Thomas Aquinas
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
Maria Montessori
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
Noam Chomsky
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
Michel de Montaigne