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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 14:50:02 GMT
"Men will not cease to be dishonest merely because their dishonesties have been revealed. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it. They will use whatever means are most convenient toward this end, and will attempt to justify them through the most plausible arguments they are able to devise."
Reinhold Niebuhr - Moral Man Immoral Society
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2013 21:02:44 GMT
"Reasonable, for most people, is that about which there is agreement, among if not all, a considerable majority of the population. Reasonable therefore has nothing to do with reason; but rather with consensus."
Eric Fromm - The Heart of Man.
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Post by Stumour on Dec 29, 2013 22:49:01 GMT
To be is to do - Socrates (NOT the Brazilian footie player) To do is to be - Sartre Do be do be do - Sinatra
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2013 23:15:22 GMT
As NYE approaches, words of wisdom from Dean Martin.
"Don't drink and drive. Don't even putt."
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Post by Stumour on Dec 30, 2013 3:47:10 GMT
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Billy Connolly
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2013 23:01:42 GMT
"As soon as the land of any country has become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its' natural produce."
Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
"These native peoples could not be disabused of the idea that, everyday life was merely an illusion, behind which lay the reality of dreams."
Werner Hertzog - from a CBC interview
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2013 1:44:18 GMT
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." "Art is never finished, only abandoned."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2014 14:41:38 GMT
"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world, is either a madman or an economist."
Kenneth Boulding
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2014 16:03:55 GMT
"To object in the name of morality against excesses and abuses, is an error that hints at active complicity. There are no excesses or abuses here, only an all pervasive system."
Simone De Beauvoir
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 11:18:28 GMT
A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork. That be the way we spell New York.
Hedley Jones
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 21:11:59 GMT
"We are not a meek people with an innocent record and scanty inheritance. Rather, we have engrossed to ourselves an altogether disproportionate share of the world's wealth and traffic. We have all we want in territory, and our claim, to simply be left alone in the unmolested enjoyment of these splendid riches; acquired by violence and maintained through force; often seems less reasonable to others, than to us."
Winston Churchill
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2014 23:07:21 GMT
"When robbed of the shinning armor of the philosophies by which it defends itself, power will fight on without armor; but it will be more vulnerable, and the strength of its' enemies is increased."
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2014 0:12:28 GMT
"The French were conducting a civilizing mission, Mussolini was nobly uplifting the Ethiopians, if we had records from the time of Genghis Kahn, he too probably had a noble vision."
Noam Chomsky
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2014 11:47:33 GMT
"It is either utter nonsense, or ill-natured irony, to suggest that a man is free to accept an employer's wages, thereby dooming himself and his family to a slow death by starvation, or to choose to starve to death more quickly by not working at all."
Philip Wheelwright, on freedom of choice in the capitalist democracy 1942
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2014 10:52:38 GMT
"We live in the United States of Amnesia, where on Monday morning no one can remember what happened Friday afternoon. Our history is a blank."
Gore Vidal
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