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“There is no possible way to have a rational discussion with a zealot: It is rather like beating a child that is already hitting itself.”
― I Hate Everyone: An introvert’s miserable adventures with mailmen, children, the outdoors, and the human condition.
― I Hate Everyone: An introvert’s miserable adventures with mailmen, children, the outdoors, and the human condition.
“I did not need an unstable relationship to teach me about the evils of broken promises. I had parents for that.”
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“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
“If only the morbidly religious cared more about real atrocities, like war, poverty, and sports.”
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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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