Stewart Baker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

  • My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

  • People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  • I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  • Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

  • The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.

  • We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

  • My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

  • I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

  • The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

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