“Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.” ShouldMeanCausesNaturalPerfectClassMankindFitGoodnessCapableAbuseSlaverySurrenderImperfectEntitledPrivilegedSubmissionPerfect ManVery Mean Author:Albert Meltzer
“An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.” LongStatesSocialNaturalMoralEconomicAbuseMechanismEconomic SystemsErosion Book:When Corporations Rule the World Source: When Corporations Rule the World
“As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between our respective species is no longer entirely reciprocal. Such exploitation is nowhere more evident than in the capture and display of cetaceans for profit. Stripped of their natural identity, deprived of their own culture and environment, the dolphin and whale incarcerated within the oceanarium not only symbolizes an abuse of that ancient relationship, but above all our estrangement from nature as a whole.” WholeSeemsEarthHumanityCultureNaturalAttitudeEnvironmentIdentityAbuseVictimSpeciesAncientProfitCaptureDisplayExploitationEvidentDeprivedWhalesDolphinsReciprocalEstrangementUtilitarian Author:Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.” KnowsChildrenDifferentHateLeftNaturalEnvironmentListeningAdultsAbusePrejudiceSafetyTolerancePianoNonsenseDevicesTraitsRidingBikeNormGangAmusedNatural EnvironmentArmchairs Author:Josh Lieb
“The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?” ShouldHumansReasonTruthNaturalPrinciplesVirtueMankindDivineAbusePhilosopherInwardPretextHuman Reason Book:Philosophical works Source: Philosophical works
“It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.” MenNaturalPleasureAbusePraiseDispositionNeighbourImpatienceSlander Author:Demosthenes
“The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to feed back, and then we fail them. And that's child abuse. And you should never raise children that way. You should cultivate and encourage their natural tendencies to create solutions to the problems around them.” WayShouldTryingChildrenFactsProblemNaturalFailingSolutionsAbuseRaisesSolveTendenciesChild Abuse Author:Grace Lee Boggs