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- Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1977)noise_the_political_economy_of_music_1977

- Jacques Attali

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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not f... - MORE For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

Jacques Attali

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Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizi... - MORE Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Islam | Judaism

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Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sediti... - MORE Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl

freedom of speech | censorship | blasphemy

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The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no right ... - MORE The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Calvin Coolidge

strikes | labor unions

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[Research has found that] ... parents whose children were "baby altruists" by two years firmly prohibited any child aggression aga... - MORE [Research has found that] ... parents whose children were "baby altruists" by two years firmly prohibited any child aggression against others. Adults not only restated their rule against hitting, for example, but they let the little one know that they would not tolerate the child hurting another.

Alice Sterling Honig

caring/kindness/compassion | children | discipline

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Satires which the censor understands are rightly prohibited. Satires which the censor understands are rightly prohibited.

Karl Kraus

satire

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In fact, the mental hygiene code, modeled originally upon the criminal code, binds the afflicted party under every method of legal... - MORE In fact, the mental hygiene code, modeled originally upon the criminal code, binds the afflicted party under every method of legal restraint. The afflicted is in a sense one accused, hospitalization constituting a type of arrest, accompanied by police power and physical force both in seizure itself and in detention, where escape is prevented by locks and bars and prohibited by statute as well. Having committed no crime, one can—while drugged and unable even to comprehend the proceedings, without even counsel of one's own choosing—within a routine five-minute hearing lose one's liberty for an indeterminate period, even for life.

Kate Millett

mental illness | punishment

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... in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my ... - MORE ... in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually but all of my sex are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this so-called republican form of government.

Susan B. Anthony

woman suffrage: anti | injustice | government

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It is odd that the NCAA would place a school on probation for driving an athlete to class, or providing a loan, but would have no ... - MORE It is odd that the NCAA would place a school on probation for driving an athlete to class, or providing a loan, but would have no penalty for a school that violates Title IX, a federal law.

Cardiss L. Collins

sports | academia | sex discrimination

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... it must be obvious that in the agitation preceding the enactment of [protective] laws the zeal of the reformers would be secon... - MORE ... it must be obvious that in the agitation preceding the enactment of [protective] laws the zeal of the reformers would be second to the zeal of the highly paid night-workers who are anxious to hold their trade against an invasion of skilled women. To this sort of interference with her working life the modern woman can have but one attitude: I am not a child.

Crystal Eastman

protection of women | work

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