“If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.” IfsThinkingWholeAbleIndividualCan DoImagineRiskWeaponsHarmNuclearEnormousIsolatedNuclear WeaponsLunaticCivil Society Author:Joshua Lederberg
“The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.” PeopleThinkingMindDoeIndividualBeliefNationsPressureDemocraticEnormousAristocratic Book:Democracy in America Source: Democracy in America
“Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.” IfsLawIndividualToo MuchStudentsCreditDebtEnormousCardsTrapsRest Of Your LifeCredit CardRelievedBankruptcyCredit Card Debt Author:Noam Chomsky
“Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.” PeopleDoeSelfMatterFormCultureIndividualForceBornCasesSocietyCivilizationMassOriginalsPossessionEnormousDelusionPlasticCoastEndowment Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.” Has BeensStatesIndividualPrinciplesHistoryVirtueSacrificeAimFinalsEnormousAriseSlaughterBenches Book:The Philosophy of History Source: The Philosophy of History