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“It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.”
― Tony Benn

“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
He sank into thought.
“And what if I am wrong,” he cried suddenly after a moment’s thought. “What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind—then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it’s all as it should be.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“the goal of a genuinely new left should not be to take over the state but to subordinate the state to the general will”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“Oh, skeptics and halfpenny philosophers, why do you halt half-way!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky