Quotes with relevance

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• At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

  Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 237

  ― Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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• Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

  ― Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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• Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids - without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

  ― Barbara Ehrenreich
  American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  ― Hannah Arendt
  German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibility
• individual
• precarious
• attainment
• scientific
• accelerate

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