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The person who can go and look on death merely to gratify an idle humour is destitute both of humanity and piety.’
“Sŵn mwy dychrynllyd na Shân Cothi mewn blendar.”
― Brithyll
― Brithyll
“Indeed, we are slowly reverting to the conditions of earlier times, when societies were divided into a small class of rentiers and a large class of servants, without, however, the hierarchical structure which made such inequality of status more palatable.”
― How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
― How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
“The cause of the exhaustion of the soil, is sought in the customs and habits of the townspeople, ie. in the construction of water closets, which do not admit of a collection and preservation of the liquid and solid excrement. They do not return in Britain to the fields, but are carried by the rivers into the sea. The equilibrium in the fertility of the soil is destroyed by this incessant removal of phosphates and can only be restored by an equivalent supply.”
― Meat: A Benign Extravagance
― Meat: A Benign Extravagance
“It’s true that the hospitals have mostly disappeared,” wrote Alisa Roth in her 2018 book Insane. “But none of the rest of it has gone away, not the cruelty, the filth, the bad food, or the brutality. Nor, most importantly, has the large population of people with mental illness who are kept largely out of sight, their poor treatment invisible to most ordinary Americans. The only real difference between Kesey’s time and our own is that the mistreatment of people with mental illness now happens in jails and prisons.”
― The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness
― The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
― Principles of Political Economy
― Principles of Political Economy
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