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“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.”
― The American Experiment: The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom
― The American Experiment: The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom
“When I tried to envision how my dogs would react to a system where they spent two-fifths of the year locked up in the sort of cages used to fly animals in the baggage compartment of airplanes, the first-month-of-gestation solution suddenly no longer seemed all that great.”
― Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat
― Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat
“I learned a valuable lesson that day. And an enduring one, too, because it resonates with me still. Family is not just about who you appear to belong to, or what it says on your birth certificate, or who you look like, or even what they’d find if they studied your DNA. Family is found anywhere you are loved and cared for. That might mean friends or foster parents, a group or even a charity. What matters far more — so much more than chemistry or ancestry — is that precious bond, that reassurance that they won’t let you down.”
― The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
― The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
“If you can change the way people think, she said. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that’s the only lasting thing you can create.”
― Choke
― Choke
“The need of one human being for the approval of his fellow humans, the need for a certain cult of fellowship - a psychological, almost physiological need for approval of one's thought and action. A force that kept men from going off at unsocial tangents, a force that made for social security and human solidarity, for the working together of the human family.
Men died for that approval, sacrificed for that approval, lived lives they loathed for that approval. For without it man was on his own, an outcast, an animal that had been driven from the pack.
It had led to terrible things, of course - to mob psychology, to racial persecution, to mass atrocities in the name of patriotism or religion. But likewise it had been the sizing that held the race together, the thing that from the very start had made human society possible.
And Joe didn't have it. Joe didn't give a damn. He didn't care what anyone thought of him. He didn't care whether anyone approved or not.”
― City
Men died for that approval, sacrificed for that approval, lived lives they loathed for that approval. For without it man was on his own, an outcast, an animal that had been driven from the pack.
It had led to terrible things, of course - to mob psychology, to racial persecution, to mass atrocities in the name of patriotism or religion. But likewise it had been the sizing that held the race together, the thing that from the very start had made human society possible.
And Joe didn't have it. Joe didn't give a damn. He didn't care what anyone thought of him. He didn't care whether anyone approved or not.”
― City
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