John Carroll Short Quotes

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The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.

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Stirner … holds to a joy-principle rather than to a pleasure-principle.

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… the bourgeois, who is not a real owner, but the servant of his avarice

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Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

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The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

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The real task is not to rid life of ethics but to rid ethics of its ideological content.

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Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

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A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

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In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

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Whereas Marx's vision of homo faber becomes inoperative within social chains, Stirner's man makes his own freedom.

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The schizophrenic is seen to be afraid of the nihilistic void that … will remain when a rigid world-view is discarded.

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Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative—the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

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The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89)

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Nietzsche [claims] that the scientist is at best an instrument, a useful slave: he does not command or decide, he is not a whole man.

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Nietzsche … combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

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This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding, …

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[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

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Nietzsche … criticizes Schopenhauerian aesthetics for not freeing itself from Kant's moralistic: 'that is beautiful which gives us pleasure without interest'.

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By punishing the criminal the moral man hopes to dissuade the evil imprisoned in his own breast from escaping. Fear of self is projected in hatred of the immoral other.

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Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

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I want everyone to understand how serious I am about purging all political bias from our coverage. We are not going to push a liberal agenda in the news pages of the Times.

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In marketing, the idea is to manage the number of complaints down to zero. That's fine if you're making toasters, but a newspaper that gets no complaints is a dead newspaper.

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For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

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Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

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Stirner and Nietzsche … reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

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