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How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain

by Ruth Goodman

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Aug 02, 2021 02:29PM

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When a state treats its citizens as an existential threat then that state ceases to be a democracy.”
― Suchitra Vijayan

tags: authoritarianism, democracy, dissent, india

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“I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.”
― Bill Waterson

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“I wish my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me;”
― Lawrence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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“In his analysis of the sublime effect, Edmund Burke termed 'horror' the state of mind of a person whose participation in speech is threatened. The power which exceeds the capacity of interlocution resembles night.”
― Jean-François Lyotard

tags: cancel-culture, dissent, free-speech, horror, human-rights, silencing, sublime

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