“What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.”
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“Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.”
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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.”
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“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
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Billy’s 2025 Year in Books
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