Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states. The clearer the proof of their inability to treat stateless people as legal persons and the greater the extension
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“William of Malmesbury wrote that ‘satisfied with a child of either sex, [the queen] ceased having issue’.”
― The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
― The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
“The spreading influence of the Church had affected the domestic arrangements of all, including priests and princes, setting bastard stock in a separate, inferior category to children born in wedlock.”
― The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
― The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
“The revolution begins by asking: what sort of promises do free men and women make to one another, and how, by making them, do we begin to make another world?”
― Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination
― Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination
“Man, who has not been granted the gift of undoing, who is always an un-consulted heir of other men’s deeds, and who is always burdened with a responsibility that appears to be the consequence of an unending chain of events rather than conscious acts, demands an explanation and interpretation of the past in which the mysterious key to his future destiny seems to be concealed.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“burnt stubs of candles were stuck to the floor. The candles formed a circle. Nothing appeared to have been taken but the cabinet in which Marepool III was displayed had been broken and the head had been handled. Some candle wax and fragments of mistletoe adhered to it.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
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