Wayback Burger Quotes & Sayings

Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was the opiate of the masses. Raymond Aron retorted that Marxist ideas were in turn the opiate of the intellectuals. There is perspicacity in both these polemical thrusts. But is perspicacity truth? I wish to suggest that perhaps truth has been the real opiate, of both the masses and the intellectuals. — Immanuel Wallerstein

Intellectual freedom begins when one says with Socrates that he knows that he knows nothing, and then goes on to add: Do you know what you don't know and therefore what you should know? If your answer is affirmative and humble, then you are your own teacher, you are making your own assignment, and you will be your own best critic. You will not need externally imposed courses, nor marks, nor diplomas, nor a nod from your boss ... in business or in politics. (from the essay The Last Don Rag) — Scott M. Buchanan

Time keeps on ... slippin' ... slippin' ... slippin' into the future. — J.R. Ward

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society. — Christina Ricci

It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul. — Max Lucado