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"Estou com nojo deste autor porque fala da escravatura como se só hoje fosse uma coisa má, mas além disso é pretensioso com a linguagem. Isto é história de Portugal altamente condensada, não precisava de estilização ridícula só porque certos homens de uma certa geração precisam de exercer toda a ginástica de palavras que conseguirem para se sentirem inteligentes e superiores. Will I ever be able to finish this book?" — Mar 16, 2024 05:00AM
"Estou com nojo deste autor porque fala da escravatura como se só hoje fosse uma coisa má, mas além disso é pretensioso com a linguagem. Isto é história de Portugal altamente condensada, não precisava de estilização ridícula só porque certos homens de uma certa geração precisam de exercer toda a ginástica de palavras que conseguirem para se sentirem inteligentes e superiores. Will I ever be able to finish this book?" — Mar 16, 2024 05:00AM
“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm unsullied by human struggle, it will always be entangled with the world we live in.”
― The Tropic of Serpents
― The Tropic of Serpents
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
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“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
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“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“In the ensuing chapters, we will look in some detail at particular manifestations of the modern scientific ideology and the false paths down which it has led us. We will consider how biological determinism has been used to explain and justify inequalities within and between societies and to claim that those inequalities can never be changed. We will see how a theory of human nature has been developed using Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection to claim that social organization is also unchangeable because it is natural. We will see how problems of health and disease have been located within the individual so that the individual becomes a problem for society to cope with rather than society becoming a problem for the individual. And we will see how simple economic relationships masquerading as facts of nature can drive the entire direction of biological research and technology.”
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