"My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too."

-- Andrej Pejic

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“I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.”
“We are today beginning to see work by very reputable scientists that says the universe is created by our observations. It is not a coincidence; we are actively involved in physically shaping the world that we experience.”
“You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.”
“Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt”
“Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man.”
“It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.”
“Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.”
“We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.”

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