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13. “No hay derecho a matar al enemigo sino en el caso de no poderle hacer esclavo. Luego, el derecho de hacerle esclavo no viene del derecho de matarle. Por lo tanto, es un cambio inicuo hacerle comprar a costa de su libertad una vida sobre la cual nadie tiene derecho.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Slavery, War, Human Rights, Moral Philosophy, Social Critique
15. “The story of human nature is a fair romance. Am I to blame if it is not found elsewhere? I am trying to write the history of mankind. If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau Human Nature, Literature, Social Critique, Historical Writing, Philosophical Reflection
24. “The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.” Arundhati Roy Democracy, Crisis, Market Economy, Electoral Politics, Social Critique
25. “In order to detach caste from the political economy, from conditions of enslavement in which most dalits lived and worked, in order to slide the questions of entitlement, land reforms and the redistribution of wealth, Hindu reformers cleverly narrowed the question of caste to the issue of untouchability. They framed it as an erroneous religious and cultural practice that needed to be reformed.” Arundhati Roy Caste, Politics, Reform, Dalits, Social Critique
28. “Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort – and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.” George Saunders Absurdism, Realism, Wealth, Social Critique, Comfort
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13. “No hay derecho a matar al enemigo sino en el caso de no poderle hacer esclavo. Luego, el derecho de hacerle esclavo no viene del derecho de matarle. Por lo tanto, es un cambio inicuo hacerle comprar a costa de su libertad una vida sobre la cual nadie tiene derecho.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Slavery, War, Human Rights, Moral Philosophy, Social Critique
15. “The story of human nature is a fair romance. Am I to blame if it is not found elsewhere? I am trying to write the history of mankind. If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Human Nature, Literature, Social Critique, Historical Writing, Philosophical Reflection
24. “The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.”
Arundhati Roy Democracy, Crisis, Market Economy, Electoral Politics, Social Critique
25. “In order to detach caste from the political economy, from conditions of enslavement in which most dalits lived and worked, in order to slide the questions of entitlement, land reforms and the redistribution of wealth, Hindu reformers cleverly narrowed the question of caste to the issue of untouchability. They framed it as an erroneous religious and cultural practice that needed to be reformed.”
Arundhati Roy Caste, Politics, Reform, Dalits, Social Critique
28. “Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort – and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.”
George Saunders Absurdism, Realism, Wealth, Social Critique, Comfort
