"All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent"

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Source : "The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century". Book by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. July 21, 2015.

David R. Brower

#Technology Quotes #Guilty Quotes #Innocent Quotes

“Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.”
“Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.”

Source : Jerome Frank (1930). “Law and the Modern Mind”, p.261, Transaction Publishers
“I am not a fan of Sigmund Freud because his theories are not testicle.”
“I don't want to belong to any league. I am in a league of my own. I don't want any tags associated with me because I know when the media associates tags with you, they also have the power to remove those tags tomorrow.”
“I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.”
“We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.”
“I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.”

Source : "The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.
“Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?”

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