“Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced.”
― The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
― The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
“optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind”
― The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
― The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
“one must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that spins. After considering this truth, nothing should come as a surprise.”
― The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
― The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
“Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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