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  1. A quotation from Hazlitt

    The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
    Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7

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  2. A quotation from Hazlitt

    The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
    Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hazlitt-william/1423…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hazlitt #williamhazlitt #compassion #concern #discomfort #pain #perspective #pity #scale #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #selfimportance #selfpity #selfishness

  3. A quotation from Hazlitt

    The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
    Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hazlitt-william/1423…

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  4. A quotation from Hazlitt

    The least pain in our little finger gives more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
    Essay (1829-10), “American Literature — Dr. Channing,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 50, No. 99, Art. 7

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hazlitt-william/1423…

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  5. @ajsadauskas @barubary The fallacy was identified over 170 years ago by #economist Frédéric #Bastiat as “the parable of the broken window” in “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen”: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_

    Henry #Hazlitt expanded on this in his classic “#Economics in One Lesson” (1946), a fantastic and easily-digestible book that traces the long-term consequences of common economic beliefs. You can download it for free: fee.org/resources/economics-in

  6. > To the Socialist this evil is the capitalistic sys­tem; to the pro­hi­bi­tion­ist it is in­tem­per­ance; to the feminist it is the sub­jec­tion of women; to the clergyman it is the decline of religion; to Andrew Carnegie it is war; to the staunch Re­pub­li­can it is the Demo­cratic Party, and so on, ad infinitum.
    > I, too, have a pet little evil, to which in more passionate moments I am apt to attribute all the others. This evil is the neglect of #thinking.
    gutenberg.org/ebooks/57243
    #Hazlitt