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“Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.”

Wells Hands Interest Wealth Virtue Conditions Talent Danger Equal Essentials Benefits Harm Opening Republic Aristocracy

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.”

Men Want Humans Littles Sometimes Too Much Worst Conditions Human Nature Consequence Guilt Harm Miserable Innocence Suspicion Distrust

Book:Israel Potter: Works of Melville

Source: Israel Potter: Works of Melville

“Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.”

Doe Conditions Behavior Harm Frontiers Unbearable General Public Metropolis

Book:Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle

Source: Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle

“When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.”

“Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing to provide actual relief for those facing the worst conditions, and legitimizing or expanding systems of harm.”

Violence Failing Worst Conditions Danger Window Leaving Harm Significant Reform Relief Dressings Expanding Tact Window Dressing

Author:Dean Spade

“We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform.”

Should Law White Violence Conditions Movement Capitalism Harm Colonialism White Supremacy Supremacy Legal System Settlers

Author:Dean Spade

“What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'”

Men Should Heart Mean Hands Would Be Lasts Poor Brain Consciousness Rich Conditions Masters Sick Workers Affair Harm Socialism Manage Idle Commonwealth Realisation

Author:William Morris