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“If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.”
― Karl R. Popper

“Suffering - curious as it may sound to you - is the means by which we exist, because it is the only means by which we become conscious of existing; and the remembrance of suffering in the past is necessary to us as the warrant, the evidence, of our continued identity. Between myself and the memory of joy lies a gulf no less deep than that between myself and joy in its actuality.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Imagine that the devil is in the process of buying the soul of some poor afflicted being, and that someone, taking pity on the one afflicted, were to intervene in the debate and say to the devil: "it is really shameful for you to offer only this price; the thing is worth at least twice that."

This sinister farce is what is being played out in the workers' movement by the syndicates, parties, and intellectuals of the left.”
― Simone Weil, First and last notebooks

“The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.”
― Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason