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  1. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 9 “Fear of Public Opinion” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/792…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BertrandRussell #autonomy #bullying #cruelty #discrimination #folly #foolishness #heterodoxy #independence #individualism #judgment #nastiness #nationalism #prejudice #racism #sexism #stupidity #merit #virtue

  2. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 9 “Fear of Public Opinion” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/792…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BertrandRussell #autonomy #bullying #cruelty #discrimination #folly #foolishness #heterodoxy #independence #individualism #judgment #nastiness #nationalism #prejudice #racism #sexism #stupidity #merit #virtue

  3. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 9 “Fear of Public Opinion” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/792…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BertrandRussell #autonomy #bullying #cruelty #discrimination #folly #foolishness #heterodoxy #independence #individualism #judgment #nastiness #nationalism #prejudice #racism #sexism #stupidity #merit #virtue

  4. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 9 “Fear of Public Opinion” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/792…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BertrandRussell #autonomy #bullying #cruelty #discrimination #folly #foolishness #heterodoxy #independence #individualism #judgment #nastiness #nationalism #prejudice #racism #sexism #stupidity #merit #virtue

  5. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 9 “Fear of Public Opinion” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/792…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BertrandRussell #autonomy #bullying #cruelty #discrimination #folly #foolishness #heterodoxy #independence #individualism #judgment #nastiness #nationalism #prejudice #racism #sexism #stupidity #merit #virtue

  6. A quotation from John Maynard Keynes

    [Capitalism is] the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.

    John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
    (Attributed)

    Vague sourcing, extensive notes: wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/…

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  7. A quotation from Judith Martin

    Miss Manners is amazed at the number of otherwise gentle souls who turn nasty when they are driving. And they all suffer from the wonderful, ostrich-like delusion that they cannot be identified because they are safely inside their cars. It seems silly to her to have to say what good driving manners are. They are the same as the simplest, most obvious of non-driving manners, except that each person is surrounded by thousands of dollars of treacherous metal.

    Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
    “Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1981-03-29)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/75509/

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  8. Ohio lawmakers ban gender-affirming care for minors, overriding governor’s veto washingtonpost.com/nation/2024

    As cruel as it is unconstitutional.
    Seriously, apart from the fact that these laws target people based on sex, there is not even a legitimate govt reason to deny medical care.

    #law #lawFedi #lawfed #fedilaw #lawProf #LGBTQ #equality #Ohio #nastiness