Philosophical
Dictionary.
"Equality. What does a dog owe to a dog, and a horse to a horse?
Nothing, no animal depends on his like; but man having received the ray of divinity called
reason, what is the result? Slavery throughout almost the whole world."1a
PLATO
ROUSSEAU
"Hell. As soon as men
lived in society they must have noticed that some guilty men
eluded the severity of the law."1b
"War. . . . [A]rtificial
religion encourages all the cruelties done in association,
conspiracies, seditions, robbery, ambushes, attacks on towns,
pillages, murders. Each one marches gaily off to crime under
the banner of his saint."1c
"On freewill. A: Your
will is not free, but your actions are. You are free to act
when you have the power to act."1d
"On laws. I was told
that there are laws among thieves, and also in
war."1e
"Necessary. 'Beware of
all the inventions of charlatans . . . and believe that two
and two make four."1f
ARISTOTLE
DESCARTES
PASCAL
BERKELEY
JAMES SANTAYANA
RUSSELL
POPPER
ORWELL
DRUCKER
PENROSE
"Tyranny. The sovereign
who knows no laws but his own whim, who seizes
the property of his subjects, and who then enlist them
to seize that of his neighbours is called a tyrant."1g
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