If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.
Luigi Pirandello
Quotes
#144 – Benatar on Babies
Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification.
David Benatar
#143 – Postman on News
Most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.
Neil Postman
#142 HOLT on School
The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher.
John Holt
#141 – Merleau-Ponty on Silence
Speech is a way of tearing out a meaning from an undivided whole
M. Merleau-Ponty
#140 Eysenck on News
What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice and ignorance.
Hans Eysenck
#139 Fuller on Work
The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist.
Buckminster Fuller
#138 – Robin on Consumerism
Consumption seems to be our favorite high, our nationally sanctioned addiction, the all-American form of substance abuse.
Vicki Robin
#137 – Boghossian on School
there are a suite of institutionalized factors that are designed to protect people from ideas…
Peter Boghossian
#136 – Goff on War
I’ve never actually seen the military used to any higher moral purpose.
Stan Goff
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