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- Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The…
- Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
- Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all…
- But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all,…
- It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it…
- Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it…
- The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world…
- As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.
- If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by…
- [A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in…
- We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman