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“Jo crec que la simplificació de l'ortografia s'ha d'intentar i demanar per posició ideològica, per principi, encara que sabem que és una qüestió molt complexa: a les dificultats merament lingüístiques s'hi afegeixen sempre les adhesions emotives i altres raons socials.”

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“Tota l'obsessió de l'anomenada "accentuació diacrítica" a les llengües neollatines per tal de diferenciar presumptes homògrafs ignora que només existeixen les paraules dins de les frases, formant relacions sintagmàtiques, i que, per tant, el mateix context dels presumptes equívocs ens els elimina. No cal fer-se "chomskyà" per proposar que la dèria d'"isolar" les paraules, que fins i tot afecta el mateix italià, neix de la nostra psicologia social profunda: l'atomització individualista... projectada als propis mots dels parlants individuals... que ens hem oblidat de "con-viure" de tant "com-petir".”

“No, I am not imagining a book-burning, warmongering, anti-intellectual fascist regime – in my plan, there is no place for re ghters who light up the Homers and Lady Murasakis and Cao Xueqins stashed under your bed – because, for starters, I’m not banning literature per se. I’m banning the reading of literature. Purchasing and collecting books and other forms of literature remains perfectly legitimate as long as you don’t peruse the literature at hand.”

“Socialist endeavour of the Fabian type would not have amounted to anything at any other time. But it did amount to much during the three decades preceding 1914, because things and souls were ready for that kind of message and neither for a less nor for a more radical one. Formulation and organization of existing opinion were all that was needed in order to turn possibilities into articulate policy, and this "organizing formulation" the Fabians provided in a most workmanlike manner. They were reformers. The spirit of the times made socialists of them. They were genuine socialists because they aimed at helping in a fundamental reconstruction of society which in the end was to make economic care a public affair.”

“Today, private for-profit universities are common, as are private prisons, law enforcement, tax collection, and military forces. The corporate encroachment into traditional governmental functions even extends into areas of foreign affairs, foreign aid, and national defense.”

“Public intervention into private businesses during crises blurs and changes the traditional boundaries between the private spheres of business and the public sphere of government. These public actions during crisis alter norms and social expectations about government intervention in business.”