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HaarlemShuffler

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“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”

Niccolò Machiavelli
 
egb_hibs said:
"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."

George Orwell.

Explains much, especially these days.
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"There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man."
Groucho Marx.
 
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

George Orwell 1984
 
30 millions. Mostly fools.
T. Carlyle when asked the population of England.
 
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

C. S. Lewis
 
tayside hibee said:
A single death is a tragedy.
A million deaths is a statistic.
J Stalin

A very sadly accurate statement 😒
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“We must put an end once and for all to the Papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life.” L Trotsky, getting the ball rolling.
 
“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”—

Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (Volumes 1, 2 & 3)
 
egb_hibs said:
“We must put an end once and for all to the Papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life.” L Trotsky, getting the ball rolling.
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Have seen this before but I think this may be misattributed or just made up....be delighted if you know the source?
 
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gun ainm said:
Have seen this before but I think this may be misattributed or just made up....be delighted if you know the source?
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We’ve been round this before, iirc it is something he said verbally. The version committed to print is:

"As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the 'sacredness of human life.'”

soviethistory.msu.edu

Trotsky on Freedom of the Press

Lev Trotsky, Terrorism and Communism. Trotsky’s classic justification of the use of terror included a passionate rebuttal to leftist protests over the shuttering of the free press in S…
soviethistory.msu.edu

It’s worth reading the whole text. Not a nice individual.
 
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gun ainm said:
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (Volumes 1, 2 & 3)
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Exactly the position we are in right now. In part due to his disciples.
 
Never try to teach a pig to sing; It wastes your time and annoys the pig ! Robert Heinlein-Time enough for love
 
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."

Epictetus
 
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