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John Stuart Mill
“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.”
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

Dewi Prysor
“Sŵn mwy dychrynllyd na Shân Cothi mewn blendar.”
Dewi Prysor, Brithyll

Susannah Cahalan
“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.”
Susannah Cahalan, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness

“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.”
Simon Fairlie, Meat: A Benign Extravagance

Errico Malatesta
“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.”
Errico Malatesta, Democracy is a lie: thoughts and notes on Anarchism.: Foreword by Peter LInka

1225 You'll love this one...!! A book club & more — 5383 members — last activity 2 hours, 41 min ago
We are an international group who share an interest in reading all genres of books. We focus on four main areas: 1. Monthly Group Themed Read. Each m ...more
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This is a group to bring together libertarians/conservatives/Objectivists who enjoy reading fiction authors expressing that worldview in their work. W ...more
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Including within it neo-liberalism, libertarianism, objectivism, anarcho-capitalism, minarchism, and American conservatism, this classical or "market" ...more
1187082 North Wales Bookclub — 12 members — last activity Jun 08, 2023 12:21PM
A casual group to discuss online, and maybe in person, books that they are currently reading. It would be nice if enough people are interested if we h ...more
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The Green group is about living in a sustainable manner--how human activity affects the environment and how a changing climate/environment affects how ...more
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