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“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”
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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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“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
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“What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.”
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“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”
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Billy’s 2025 Year in Books
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