A Quote by Weston La Barre

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

Weston La Barre

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Weston La Barre
American - Anthropologist
December 13, 1911 - March 13, 1996

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Thomas Paine

Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.

William Inge

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

John Dryden

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

Theodore Roosevelt

Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent data (for who needs proof of anything so obvious). And few intellectual activities can be more salutary than attempts to find out whether these rocks of ages might crumble at the slightest tap of an informational hammer.

Stephen Jay Gould

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

Robert Ringer

... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

Virginia Woolf

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

Thornton Wilder

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Thomas Paine

In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or postmodernist art... will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past.

Fredric Jameson

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Christopher Lasch

I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.