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Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.
“There is among us a tendency to consider true, good and fine everything that appears under the agreeable cloak of revolt against the accepted “truths”, especially if supported by people who are, or call themselves, anarchists. This shows a deficiency of that spirit of investigation and criticism that should be maximally developed in anarchists.”
― Democracy is a lie: thoughts and notes on Anarchism.: Foreword by Peter LInka
― Democracy is a lie: thoughts and notes on Anarchism.: Foreword by Peter LInka
“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
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”
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“Sŵn mwy dychrynllyd na Shân Cothi mewn blendar.”
― Brithyll
― Brithyll
“Put another way, the superior efficiency of a universal vegan diet can perhaps only result in a significant increase of food production if it is ‘subsidized’ by petrochemical inputs which a livestock-based system can do without.”
― Meat: A Benign Extravagance
― Meat: A Benign Extravagance
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