#Advertising Quotes #Ancient Quotes #Contemporary Society Quotes
“I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.”
“To the aircraft I aim, not the man.”
“I don’t know what to tell you, Perry. Life’s hard. Love’s harder”
“The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.”
“There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of a class that knows little other than spin and the machinations of politics. Little wonder that leadership of the transforming sort is so hard to come by. The danger is that this may be permanent. Where our best people shun politics because the profession isn't honoured as it once was, this only serves to make the profession even less honoured.”
“... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.”
Source : Anthony De Jasay (2014). “Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order”, p.49, Routledge
“I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.”
“Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism.”
