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And the attempt of the Eugenists and other fatalists to treat all men as irresponsible is the largest and flattest folly in philosophy. The Eugenist has to treat everybody, including himself, as an exception to a rule that isn’t there.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
In order to estimate the amount of the public charges of a people two preliminaries are indispensable: it is necessary, in the first place, to know the wealth of that people; and in the second, to learn what portion of that wealth is devoted to the expenditure of the State.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Trial by jury may be considered in two separate points of view, as a judicial and as a political institution.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Le procédé de fichage propre au Fijait illustre un phénomène de répression circulaire : à la première séquence de répression judiciaire, celle qui aboutit à la condamnation, succède une phase de répression policière plus invisible mais contraignante et qui, parce que lui est adossé un nouveau délit, peut conduire à une nouvelle condamnation.
Vanessa Codaccioni • Répression: L'État face aux contestations politiques (Petite encyclopédie critique) (French Edition)
For four centuries every man has been not only his own priest but his own professor of ethics, and the consequence is an anarchy which threatens even that minimum consensus of value necessary to the political state.
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
Kinkel m’a donné une lettre de recommandation pour Malvida von Meysenburg. Vous la connaissez, c’est elle qui a écrit les Mémoires d’une idéaliste ? » Breuer acquiesça. Il connaissait bien l’œuvre de Malvida von Meysenburg, en particulier ses croisades en faveur des droits des femmes, des réformes politiques radicales et des changements dans les mé
... See moreIrvin Yalom • Et Nietzsche a pleuré (Littérature) (French Edition)
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
The transformation of the marriage of Freud and Marx, however, from shotgun status to one of genuine love was to take place at the hands of two men, one informally associated with the Frankfurt School, the other perhaps its most significant and influential activist intellectual:
Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse, respectively. These two figures are
... See moreCarl R. Trueman • The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
