“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
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“There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
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