Evan Kurth

“Absolute governments (tho’ the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, that they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs, know likewise the remedy, and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures. But the constitution of England is so exceedingly complex, that the nation may suffer for years together without being able to discover in which part the fault lies, some will say in one and some in another, and every political physician will advise a different medicine.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense: The Revolutionary Pamphlet That Inspired Washington and the American Revolution—Featured in the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Hamilton

“Time is just, but only in the long term—not in the short term. The time we won’t live to see, which will be free of our prejudices.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

“One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense: The Revolutionary Pamphlet That Inspired Washington and the American Revolution—Featured in the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Hamilton

“Ought we therefore to lay on no taxes, and, under whatever provocation, make no wars?”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty