“Universal suffrage is counter-revolution” – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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God as a Hypothesis – Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upon me. A priori dogmatism, applying itself to God, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, in its turn, will lead us? I will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, God, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, I mean a necessary dialectical tool.”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Compassion in Politics – Thomas Sowell Quote
“One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.”
Thomas Sowell
John Taylor Gatto on Self-Education and Personal Responsibility
“The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn’t know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.”
John Taylor Gatto
“I Only Read Books Over 2,000 Years Old” – Hans-Georg Gadamer
“I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Quote by Leo Tolstoy about the Meaning of Life
“The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.”
Leo Tolstoi
Quote by Walter Lippmann on Life and War
“It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.”
Walter Lippmann
Social Contract and Absolutism – Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate — something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Freedom – Quote by Ayn Rand
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
Ayn Rand
Quote by Walter Lippmann on Bombing and Foot Soldiers
“Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.”
Walter Lippmann