Yash Arya
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“Individuals thus acquire a right to property by their labour. By means of this right, they sustain the most important of all rights— the right to life. Through this logic, the right to property became a central doctrine of liberalism.”
― The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal
― The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal
“At this point I have no patience whatsoever with people who claim they want to help Africans or Black people but who are “anti-capitalists.”
― The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing
― The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing
“Unfortunately, our negativity biases also make us underappreciate or ignore the real progress that humans have made in tackling environmental problems in the past. Furthermore, they militate against an attitude of rational optimism about our ability to solve environmental problems in the future.”
― Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
― Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
“If you can orchestrate the words people use and how they use them, you can control their speech and therefore their thoughts.”
― Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning
― Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning
“It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.”
― The Man Who Laughs
― The Man Who Laughs
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