Illustrated Quotes for a Livable World
created by C.A. L'Hirondelle, July 2012

"Immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous"
- Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness, 1932

"When it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress."
Joan Robinson, Economic Philosophy, 1962

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

"A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built on sand." Dorothy L. Sayers in Creed of Chaos, 1947

"Teach men to laugh at the stupid and the angry
lest we fall prey to the weakness of hating them." - Anatole France
(from Preface to the novel We)

Details - The Smug Minority

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posted July 2012
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