"The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state."

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Source : "The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties". Book by Alan Barth, 1984.

Alan Barth

#Church Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Communist Quotes

“I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.”
“It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.”

Source : "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1993.
“M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.”
“I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.”

Source : Interview with Matt Ginella, www.golfdigest.com. March 2, 2008.
“To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.”

Source : George Boole (1854). “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities”, p.3
“Itâ€™s not what you do â€“ itâ€™s what you are becoming.”
“Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.”
“Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them to me.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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