"Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration."

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Source : A. C. Grayling (2009). “Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values”, Bloomsbury Publishing

A.C. Grayling

#Wall Quotes #Graffiti Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.”
“It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed”
“One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.”
“So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.”
“The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.”
“Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.”
“Direct mail - it falls out of every magazine you open these days”
“Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.”

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