"Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language."

-- Christopher Lasch

#People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.”
“The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.”
“If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would but turn their thoughts inwardly, they would probably find that they have a great work to do at home; and that, when that shall have been completed, they will be little disposed to do more towards correcting the vices of others, than simply to give to others the results of their experience and observation.”
“Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.”
“I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.”
“We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.”
“Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.”
“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now”

You may also like:

Cornelius Castoriadis
Philosopher
George Scialabba
Literary critic
Karl Marx
Philosopher
Michael Ignatieff
Member of the Canadian House of Commons
Richard Hofstadter
Historian
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist
Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Philosopher
Zygmunt Bauman
Sociologist
Amitai Etzioni
Academic