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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Hostility to the status quo may be derived from either of two sources: it may spring from sympathy with the unfortunate or from hatred of the fortunate. If it springs from the latter, it involves just as much limitation of sympathy as is involved in conservatism. Many revolutionaries in their day-dreams are not so much concerned with the happiness that is to come to the common people as with the vengeance that they will be able to wreak upon the insolent holders of power from whom they are suffering in the present.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/860…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #change #hatred #power #progress #revolution #revolutionary #statusquo #sympathy #vengeance
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A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort
The most absurd customs and the most ridiculous ceremonies are everywhere excused by an appeal to the phrase, but that’s the tradition. This is exactly what the Hottentots say when Europeans ask them why they eat grasshoppers and devour their body lice. That’s the tradition, they explain.
[Les coutumes les plus absurdes, les étiquettes les plus ridicules, sont en France et ailleurs sous la protection de ce mot: c’est l’usage. C’est précisément ce même mot que répondent les Hottentots, quand les Européens leur demandent pourquoi ils mangent des sauterelles, pourquoi ils dévorent la vermine dont ils sont couverts. Ils disent aussi: c’est l’usage.]Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 3, ¶ 249 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/377…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #absurdity #ceremony #convention #custom #precedent #protocol #ridiculousness #ritual #statusquo #strangeness #tradition
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A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort
The most absurd customs and the most ridiculous ceremonies are everywhere excused by an appeal to the phrase, but that’s the tradition. This is exactly what the Hottentots say when Europeans ask them why they eat grasshoppers and devour their body lice. That’s the tradition, they explain.
[Les coutumes les plus absurdes, les étiquettes les plus ridicules, sont en France et ailleurs sous la protection de ce mot: c’est l’usage. C’est précisément ce même mot que répondent les Hottentots, quand les Européens leur demandent pourquoi ils mangent des sauterelles, pourquoi ils dévorent la vermine dont ils sont couverts. Ils disent aussi: c’est l’usage.]Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 3, ¶ 249 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/377…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #absurdity #ceremony #convention #custom #precedent #protocol #ridiculousness #ritual #statusquo #strangeness #tradition
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A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort
The most absurd customs and the most ridiculous ceremonies are everywhere excused by an appeal to the phrase, but that’s the tradition. This is exactly what the Hottentots say when Europeans ask them why they eat grasshoppers and devour their body lice. That’s the tradition, they explain.
[Les coutumes les plus absurdes, les étiquettes les plus ridicules, sont en France et ailleurs sous la protection de ce mot: c’est l’usage. C’est précisément ce même mot que répondent les Hottentots, quand les Européens leur demandent pourquoi ils mangent des sauterelles, pourquoi ils dévorent la vermine dont ils sont couverts. Ils disent aussi: c’est l’usage.]Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 3, ¶ 249 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/377…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #absurdity #ceremony #convention #custom #precedent #protocol #ridiculousness #ritual #statusquo #strangeness #tradition
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From The Herd to Status Quo
A very happy 79th birthday to Andrew Steven Bown , Born today 27th March 1946
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From The Herd to Status Quo
A very happy 79th birthday to Andrew Steven Bown , Born today 27th March 1946
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From The Herd to Status Quo
A very happy 79th birthday to Andrew Steven Bown , Born today 27th March 1946
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From The Herd to Status Quo
A very happy 79th birthday to Andrew Steven Bown , Born today 27th March 1946
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From The Herd to Status Quo
A very happy 79th birthday to Andrew Steven Bown , Born today 27th March 1946