"All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites."

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Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de

Mario Bunge

#Liars Quotes #Hypocrite Quotes #Joining Quotes

“Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the supernatural, I don't believe in anything! And I'm terribly cynical, and somehow or other, all three of my films and much of my television work has been rather sentimental, and 'heartwarming'.”
“Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me.”

Source : "A Wry Survivor, Elaine Stritch Returns to Film" by Leslie Bennetts, www.nytimes.com. December 21, 1987.
“In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't worth anything. It's absolutely free. It's going to get made no matter what.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You must quit looking at what you donâ€™t have and start believing that all things are possible.”
“I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.”
“Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name. . . . The French city . . . had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the ***** phase.”
“Whoever said money can't buy happiness wasn't spending it helping people who needed it.”
“Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.”

Source : Eric Williams (2014). “The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield

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