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things were wrong usually only when one cared too much.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Daniel C. Dennett
“[...] нормалното положение на нещата за всяка живо същество, което се размножава, е такова, че при всяко поколение се ражда по-многобройно потомство, отколкото е възможно да се възпроизведе. Иначе казано, ножът почти винаги е опрян до кокала.

Познат пример за действието на правилото на Малтус е размножаването на популация от дрожди в парче тесто или гроздов сок. Благодарение на изобилието от захари и други хранителни вещества следва популационна експлозия, която при тестото продължава в продължение на няколко часа, а при сока - няколко седмици. Рано или късно обаче популацията достига описания от Малтус тава в резултат от собствената си ненаситност и натрупването на отпадъчни продукти - въглероден двуокис (благодарение на който се появяват мехурчетата при втасването на хляба или в шампанското) и алкохол, които ние харесваме - за разлика от горките дрожди.”
Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“We walked into my mother's house at 10:30 in the morning at the end of February 1992. I had been gone for three weeks. She had been so desperate about us - she, too, looked thin and haggard. She was stunned to see me walk in, filthy and crawling with lice, with a huge crowd of starving people.
We ate and drank clean water; then, before we even washed, I put Marian in a taxi with me and told the driver to go to Nairobi Hospital. We had no money left and I knew Nairobi Hospital was expensive; it was where I had been operated on when the ma'alim broke my skull. But I also knew that there they would help us first and ask to pay later. Saving the baby's life had become the only thing that mattered to me.
At the reception desk I announced, "This baby is going to die," and the nurse's eyes went wide with horror. She took him and put a drip in his arm, and very slowly, this tiny shape seemed to uncrumple slightly. After a little while, his eyes opened.
The nurse said, "The child will live," and told us to deal with the bill at the cash desk. I asked her who her director was, and found him, and told this middle-aged Indian doctor the whole story. I said I couldn't pay the bill. He took it and tore it up. He said it didn't matter. Then he told me how to look after the baby, and where to get rehydration salts, and we took a taxi home.
Ma paid for the taxi and looked at me, her eyes round with respect. "Well done," she said. It was a rare compliment.
In the next few days the baby began filling out, growing from a crumpled horror-movie image into a real baby, watchful, alive.”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

Thomas Sowell
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”
Thomas Sowell

“Ако човек няма необходимите качества, за да стане някакъв, да постигне нещо, свободата е тягостно бреме. Каква е ползата от свободния избор, ако личността не е способна за нищо? Ние се присъединяваме към масовите движения, за да избегнем индивидуалната отговорност, или, по думите на един пламенен млад нацист, "да бъдем свободни от свободата." Твърдението на редовите нацисти, че не са отговорни за всички чудовищни дела, които са извършили, не е само и единствено лицемерие. Те са се чувствали измамени и оклеветени, когато са били принудени да споделят отговорността за изпълняваните от тях заповеди. Нали са се присъединили към нацисткото движение точно за това - за да бъдат освободени от отговорност?”
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