{"id":693,"date":"2010-11-23T19:42:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T00:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=693"},"modified":"2010-11-23T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T00:49:09","slug":"knowledge-and-power-some-archival-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/693\/quotes\/knowledge-and-power-some-archival-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge and Power: some archival quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

They used to say knowledge is power. I use to think so, but I now know that they mean money.<\/em>
\nLord Byron (1788-1824)<\/p>\n

I do not like the word ‘bomb’. It is not a bomb, it is a device which is exploding.<\/em>
\nJacques LeBlanc, French Ambassador to New Zealand, on French nuclear testing<\/p>\n

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms. <\/em>
\nAntonio Gramsci – Letters from Prison (1946)<\/em><\/p>\n

Today we stand at the edge of a great abyss. Tomorrow, we take a giant step forward. <\/em>
\nLeonid Kuchma -quote by the former president of Ukraine<\/em><\/p>\n

We declared war on terror, it’s not even a noun, so, good luck. After we defeat it, I’m sure we’ll take on that bastard ennui.<\/em>
\nJon Stewart<\/p>\n

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.<\/em>
\nBertrand Russell<\/p>\n

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.<\/em>
\nGeorge Orwell<\/p>\n

We suffer from a lag in which the slow horse of meaning is unable to keep up with the fast horse of mere information.<\/em>
\nOrrin Klapp from Overload and Boredom<\/em><\/p>\n

The ultimate lesson of <\/em>The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.<\/em>
\nSlavoj Zizek – “Irma’s Injection” [on Freud’s Dreams]<\/em>. LRB 25 May 2006.<\/p>\n

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.<\/em>
\nGabriel Garcia Marquez<\/p>\n

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.<\/em>
\nCharles Darwin<\/p>\n

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.<\/em>
\nConfucius<\/p>\n

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
\n<\/em>Alfred North Whitehead<\/p>\n

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC is best.<\/em>
\nFrank Zappa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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