Here are the Answers (For the Questions, see page 187)
1.This Genevan philosopher proclaimed: “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.”
2.This literary duo is responsible for the rallying cry: “Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains!”
3.Before going insane, he proclaimed: “What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
4.This influential doctor advised 1960s young people to “Turn on, tune in, and drop out!”
5.This nineteenth-century liberal wrote: “All power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
6.The claim that “all sex is rape” was attributed to her, though she disputed this interpretation of her writings.
7.He wrote: “That government is best which governs not at all.”
8.“Existence comes before Essence” is the maxim of this philosophical movement.
9.This old saying, quoted in an 1855 poem by Browning, was made into a slogan of the new architecture by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
10.The medium is the message,” proclaimed this Canadian scholar.
11.This slogan voiced by Otto Liebman in 1865 rallied German philosophers opposed to absolute idealism.
12.“Freedom is slavery” is one of the three main slogans of this ruling political party.
13.This De Beers slogan is not true, since carbon crystals must eventually degrade to something like powdered graphite.
14.This value judgment is a fundraising tagline of the American Negro College Fund.
15.A maxim of Mao Zedong urges us to put this in command.
16.This politician’s presidential campaign motto was “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.”
17.The 2008 Obama presidential campaign derived this English-language slogan from the Spanish-language motto of the United Farm Workers.
18.This successful Nike slogan was inspired by a remark of mass murderer Gary Gilmore.
19.This US president was the first to proclaim: “The Buck Stops Here.”
20.This campaign slogan by supporters of 1884 presidential candidate James Blaine drew attention to the fact that their opponent Grover Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child.
21.Maxwell House has attributed this slogan to a remark by Teddy Roosevelt, though some historians are not convinced.
22.He said that it is better to be “Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”
23.Though he spent much of his adult life seeking the acceptance and recognition of others, he argued that it’s better for a ruler to be feared than loved.
24.He claimed that life without government is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
25.This 1930s slogan adapted from ads for DuPont is also the title of an album by Fatboy Slim.
26.This famous maxim, often wrongly attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, actually appears in a work by Thomas Hobbes from 1658.
27.This 1945 book gave us the slogan “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.”
28.The free market works like an invisible hand, according to a 1776 book by this Scottish philosopher.
29.“Nonsense on stilts” is the phrase applied by this English philosopher to the claim that there are inalienable natural rights.
30.He argued that we live in the best of all possible worlds, so Voltaire mocked him as Dr. Pangloss.