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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“Anselm targeted the sodomy, drunkenness and slovenly dress that he was disappointed to find flourishing among the English priesthood.”
― 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
“The first day I walked into Frank’s kitchen, I was sporting a long ponytail, mascara, and combat boots. By the time I left, I had cut my hair short and wore my chef’s coat with pride. I didn’t adorn myself with anything else. I shed any notion of an adolescent identity and started from scratch.”
― Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine
― Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine
“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
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