"Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as the public remains passive and obedient."

-- Noam Chomsky

#Attitude Quotes #Safety Quotes #Long Quotes

“Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.”
“At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.”
“I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.”
“There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!”
“So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.”

Source : At his execution, on being asked which way he preferred to lay his head, in William Stebbing 'Sir Walter Raleigh' (1891) ch. 30
“And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.”

Source : "The Monks and the Giants".
“I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'”
“People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?”

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