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there are quite a few issues with this book. it was written in 1975 and therefore you have to place yourself in the context of 1975 when environmentalism was a burgeoning topic in the popular mind. A few things I didn't like:- He tries to give the ve ...more "
“Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations.”
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“No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.”
― Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
― Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
“I love being alone. It's not solitary at all. I want to be solitary. It's great. The best thing in the world is to get away from other people. It's glorious.”
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“Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.”
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“So long as the lust for power persists as a human trait — and in persons of a certain kind of physique and temperament this lust is over-masteringly strong — no political arrangement, however well contrived, can guarantee peace. For such men the instruments of violence are as fearfully tempting as are, to others, the bodies of women.”
― Science, Liberty and Peace
― Science, Liberty and Peace
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Maggie’s 2025 Year in Books
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