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“Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence.”

Quote by Laurance Labadie

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Selected essays

This book compiles a selection of essays that delve into diverse subjects, offering insights and perspectives on a range of topics. more

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Laurance Labadie

Laurance Labadie was an individual active from 1898 to 1975. His professional category is currently unknown. more

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“A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.”

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“It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.”

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“Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.”

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