July Quotes

Another edition of “Quotes,” consisting of quotes I’ve gathered and enjoyed:

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
– H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)

Every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies . . . a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16 1953. http://i.imgur.com/ZC6zn.jpg

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
– Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
– Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869)

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
– J. K. Rowling

Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
– G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)

Is there life before death?
– Graffito, in Belfast

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.
– Paul Dirac (1902 – 1984)

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
– Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
– John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 – 2006)

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    grumpypilgrim

    I heard one by Bill Moyers recently, to the effect that, “News is what people don’t want you to know; everything else is propaganda.” He was discussing the way journalism has tended to become merely a mouthpiece for powerful (corporate) interests, rather than a vehicle for actual investigation.

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