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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Noam Chomsky
    “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
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    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
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    Noam Chomsky
    “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: education, education-system, instituions
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    Noam Chomsky
    “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....”
    ― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good
    tags: 1998
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    Noam Chomsky
    “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
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    Noam Chomsky
    “I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: philosophy
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind
    tags: truth
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    Noam Chomsky
    “The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
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    Noam Chomsky
    “That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: books, politics
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.

    In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
    tags: democracy, mass-media, propaganda, repression, totalitarianism
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: ignorance, mysteries, problems
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: freedom, moral-absolutism, morality, police, privilege, responsibility, wealth
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: education, inspiration, inspirational, learning
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    Noam Chomsky
    “It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
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    Bertrand Russell
    “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: life, love
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Bertrand Russell
    “A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
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    Bertrand Russell
    “In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: certainty, perspective, presumption, questioning
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World
    tags: communism, democracy, dishonesty, funny, humour, politicians, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
    tags: cruelty, fear, superstition
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Bertrand Russell
    “To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
    tags: philosophy, truth
    633 likes

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  • #28
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: language, perception, power-of-words
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: life, philosophy
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: hell, solipsism
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