The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
~ Lao Zi
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Monthly Archives: March 2024
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality.
~ Auguste Comte
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At the heart of the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century there was an almost miraculous improvement in the tools of production, which was accompanied by a catastrophic dislocation of the lives of the common people
― Karl Polanyi
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
~ A. J. Liebling
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In their anti-learning culture, conservatives have come to view everything that happens, however unwelcome, as proof simply that the most extreme people were the most correct.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past — which is to say, only a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments.
― Walter Benjamin
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