As Hannah Arendt observed in The Origins of Totalitarianism, political purges often serve as jobs programs.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
via Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
published by The Atlantic
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.
~ Edmund Cooper
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If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
~ James Baldwin
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
― Michel Foucault
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Conversation is an art in which a person has all humanity for their competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most of us view the world as more benign than it really is, our own attributes as more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
~ Niels Bohr
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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