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“When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.”

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Roger Scruton, born on February 27, 1944, is a renowned British philosopher. His research areas include aesthetics, political philosophy, and moral philosophy, which have had a profound impact on the philosophical world. more

“If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that he, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them...that psychological confession reveals the enormity of the extent to which altruism erodes men's capacity to grasp the concept of rights or the value of an individual life.”

Ifs Men Should Values Individual Poor Accepting Rights Members Concepts Capacity Psychological Confession Altruism Premises Erode Individual Life

Author:Ayn Rand

“No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.”

People Helping Compassion Poverty Lifts

Author:John H. McWhorter

“The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our goal is to thrive despite racism rather than fetishizing it is, in fact, the central ideological plank of people deemed "black conservatives." This is a coherent position, but that can be hard to perceive, given the way that race has been discussed in our land over the past 40 years or so.”

“I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.”

Ifs Knows World Ends Reason Moving Compelling Restless End Of The World Dropping Dissatisfaction Trajectory Compelling Reason

Book:The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

“Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.”

Ifs Government Form Belief Novel Humility Lucky Curious Customs Traveler Forms Of Government Unfamiliar Cuisine

Author:Paul Fussell

“Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.”

People Thinking Giving Littles Different Self Home Given Realizing Challenges Rooms Raised Leaving Make Sense Evident Leaving Home

Book:Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act

Source: Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act

“Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.”

Should Real Courses Plans Bags Destination Toothbrushes

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.”

Would Be Loss Australia Great Loss

Author:Julia Gillard

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