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.

  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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