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We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to…
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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the…
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States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize…
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Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
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Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
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In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has…
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Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than…
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Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
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But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic…
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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
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Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you…
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If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to…
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a…
— Hannah Arendt
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
— Mortimer Adler
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After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference…
— Joseph Parker
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Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
— Owen Wister
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,…
— Sissela Bok
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is…
— Will Cuppy
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done…
— Florence Nightingale
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes…
— H. L. Mencken
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi…
— John Dryden
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