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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is not a neutral instrument.
Antonio Gramsci
The most powerful tool of the oppressor is not his weapons but his words.
Hermann Goering
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Angela Carter
The limits of language are the limits of one's world. All I know is what I have words for.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The words we use are strong; They make reality.
Wangari Maathai
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
Mark Amidon
Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections – and it matters which ones get made and unmade.
Donna Haraway
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
Mark Weiser
The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
Bill Gates
The internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things – of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
Jim Clark
The internet is a powerful tool for communication, but it can also be a dangerous place where misinformation spreads quickly.
Hillary Clinton
The internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see. If we do not like what we see in that mirror, we should not blame the mirror, we should blame ourselves.
Vint Cerf
The internet is not a luxury, it's a necessity.
Barack Obama
The internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry
Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness.
Ola Joseph
The world is not black and white. More like black and grey. And if you can't handle grey, you shouldn't be in the political arena.
Larry Elder
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
Toni Morrison
The only way to change the world is to make a little noise.
Malala Yousafzai
Culture is the arts of collective intelligence.
Terence McKenna
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
Wendell Pierce
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolfe
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
Andre Malraux
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Henry Van Dyke
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David C. McCullough
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
William Faulkner
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The function of history is to provide a self-consciousness to mankind.
Arnold J. Toynbee
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.
Wael Ghonim
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Nelson Mandela
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.
Neal Shusterman
Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.
Michel Foucault
Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint.
Michel Foucault
The truth is not something that is simply present, open, and given, but rather something that is produced and that involves power relations.
Michel Foucault
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
Jerry Rubin
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
Pope John Paul II
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
The truth is not always what we want to hear.
Unknown
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
Jim Morrison
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Malcolm X
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
George Orwell
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward Bernays
The first casualty of war is always the truth.
Aeschylus
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
To be conscious of being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.
Eckhart Tolle
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt
Ideology is the science of appearances, and not of realities.
Friedrich Engels
Ideology is a poor substitute for kindness and decency.
Paul Krugman
Ideology is the most dangerous concept in human history.
Jordan Peterson
Ideology is a virus that corrupts the mind.
John Danforth
Ideology is a form of intellectual and moral laziness.
Robert Solow
Ideology is a poor guide to the complex reality of the world.
Amartya Sen
Ideology is a substitute for thought.
Herbert Spencer
Ideology is a mental prison.
David Icke
Ideology is the enemy of truth.
Indira Gandhi
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Aristotle
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
Knowledge is not neutral. It has implications for power relations and social justice.
Sandra Harding
The production of knowledge is always already a political process.
Michel Foucault
The knowledge that is produced in universities is not innocent or objective.
bell hooks
The ethics of knowledge production require us to question the assumptions and biases that underlie our research.
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
The politics of knowledge production are intimately tied to questions of who gets to speak and who is silenced.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The ethics of knowledge production require us to be aware of the power dynamics that shape our research questions and methods.
Sara Ahmed
The knowledge that is produced in the academy is often complicit in maintaining systems of oppression.
Angela Davis
The politics of knowledge production require us to be critical of the ways in which knowledge is used to justify inequality and injustice.
Nancy Fraser
The ethics of knowledge production require us to be accountable to the communities that we study and to recognize the ways in which our research can impact their lives.
Kim TallBear
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