March 2012
47 posts
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“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply...”
– H. L. Mencken (via elige)
“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will...”
– Plato (via elige)
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“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear bomb, Kurt sent me a copy of a very short letter he wrote to The New York Times: ‘I know of only one nation that has dropped nuclear bombs on innocent people.’”
— Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut
“UTTERANCE
Sitting over words
very late I have heard a kind of whispered...”
– —W.S. Merwin, from The Rain in the Trees, 1988
here
(via yama-bato)
Cool underground park idea →
“All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding,...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (via elige)
“To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things...”
– JON STEWART, The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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“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
