Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays Quotes
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays
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“An
egalitarian society can only hope to achieve its goals by totalitarian methods of coercion; and, even here, we all believe
and hope the human spirit of individual man will rise up and
thwart any such attempts to achieve an ant-heap world. In
short, the portrayal of an egalitarian society is horror fiction
because, when the implications of such a world are fully
spelled out, we recognize that such a world and such attempts
are profoundly antihuman; being antihuman in the deepest
sense, the egalitarian goal is, therefore, evil and any attempts
in the direction of such a goal must be considered evil as well.”
― Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays
egalitarian society can only hope to achieve its goals by totalitarian methods of coercion; and, even here, we all believe
and hope the human spirit of individual man will rise up and
thwart any such attempts to achieve an ant-heap world. In
short, the portrayal of an egalitarian society is horror fiction
because, when the implications of such a world are fully
spelled out, we recognize that such a world and such attempts
are profoundly antihuman; being antihuman in the deepest
sense, the egalitarian goal is, therefore, evil and any attempts
in the direction of such a goal must be considered evil as well.”
― Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays
“In the field of justice, man's will is all; men can move mountains, if only men so decide.”
― Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays
― Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays
“Dutt effectively concluded with a quote from an editor of the highly respected Current History Magazine: The new America [the editor had written in mid-1933] will not be capitalist in the old sense, nor will it be socialist. If at the moment the trend is towards fascism, it will be an American fascism, embodying the experience, the traditions, and the hopes of a great middle-class nation.13 Thus,”
― Egalitarianism as a Revolt against Nature
― Egalitarianism as a Revolt against Nature
