Hemlock quotes

Hemlock

5 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

"Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates."

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