Arthur Ponsonby (1871–1946) British Liberal and later Labour politician and pacifist
Falsehood in Wartime (1928), Introduction
“Idiocy: crudeness’ intellectual equivalent.”
Collected Aphorisms
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Source: The Empire Strikes Back
“Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.”
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“Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.”
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“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”
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“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.”
Ayn Rand book The Virtue of Selfishness
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
Context: Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage—the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.
“Is perception equivalent to existence?”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)