“Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Les contemporains qui souffrent de certaines choses ne peuvent s'en souvenir qu'avec une horreur qui paralyse tout autre plaisir, même celui de lire un conte.
Vol. I, ch. XXVII
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)
“Poverty corrupts the People’s behaviour and degrades its soul; it predisposes it to crime.”
Robespierre: A Revolutionary life, p.43
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“People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.”
" The Planet that Wasn't http://geobeck.tripod.com/frontier/planet.htm" originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1975)
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Context: People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
2010s, Update on Investigations in Ferguson (2015)
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 12 “The Gentleman from Tralfamadore” (p. 301)
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 184.