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the resurgence of the automation discourse today is a response to a real trend unfolding across the world: there are simply too few jobs for too many people.
“What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.”
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
“The movement toward equality still has a long way to go, especially in a world in which the poorest, and particularly the poorest in the poorest countries, are preparing to be subjected, with increasing violence, to climatic and environmental damage caused by the richest people’s way of life.”
― A Brief History of Equality
― A Brief History of Equality
“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.”
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“these people of millennia past were not like us but with more dirt. Their beliefs were different, their prayers were different, their faith was different, their very thoughts were different, and yet we still live within their long shadows.”
― Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
― Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
“You don’t leave a can of gasoline where a boy with firebug tendencies can lay hands on it.”
― Guns
― Guns
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