Quotes from the West

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." ~ Aldous Huxley, A Case of Voluntary Ignorance

"A substantial part of political discourse is devoted to obscuring the realities of the 'national interest'." ~ Noam Chomsky

"They who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them for their blindness." ~ John Milton

"The pledge: to let neither lethargy of mind or body become habit." ~ Suvian Quilmann

"Business succeds rather better than the state in imposing restraints upon individuals, because its imperatives are disguised as choices.: ~ Walton Hale Hamilton

"The best journalism arises when official sources disagree" ~Robert McChesney

"The historian is just another dim figure trudging along in another part of the procession...[and] the point in the procession at which he finds himself determines his angle of vision over the past." ~ E.H. Carr, What is History?

"The question of what we do in life is important, but how we do it is perhaps more. Remember that, and the key to fulfillment is always within your grasp." ~ Suvian Quilmann

"Great writers are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote." ~ F.R. Leavis

"Science is a selective system of cognitive orientations to reality." ~ Talcott Parsons

"The people who own the country ought to govern it." John Jay, Chief Justice of the United States (1789-1795), and a founding father

"The hand-mill gives us a society with a feudal lord; the steam-mill gives us a society with an industrial capitalist." ~ Karl Marx

"A serious and explicit purpose of our foreign policy is the encouragement of a hospitable climate for investment in foreign nations." ~ President Eisenhower, 1953 State of the Union address

"When faced with a choice between liberty and security, choose liberty. Otherwise you will wind up with neither." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"The map is not the territory." ~ Alfred Korzybski

"Words form the thread on which we string our experiences." ~ Aldous Huxley

"The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move forward." ~ Robert Pirsig, Lila, p.430

"Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business." ~ John Dewey

"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one." ~ A.J. Liebling