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“With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Kind States Feelings Care Causes Principles Danger Particular Instinct Sake Painful Excited Explanation Comforting Liberating Discomfort Abolish Conditional

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.”

Years Art States Able Christ Perfect Healing Lord Five Influence Hundred India Ancient Efficient Physicians Surgery Abolish Present Day Ancient India Lord Buddha

Book:The Bach Flower Remedies

Source: The Bach Flower Remedies

“It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that the people have in all cases, a right to determine how they will be governed. This right must be considered as an ingredient in the original composition of the general government, which, though not expressed, was mutually understood. . .”

Source: A view of the Constitution of the United States of America

“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”

Real States Reality Results Existence Conditions Movement Ideals Affair Communism Premises Abolish

Book:Karl Marx: A Reader

Source: Karl Marx: A Reader

“Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.”

Men States Liberty Concern Aim Socialism Streams Anarchy Exploitation Socialist Components Anarchism Anarchist Haste Abolish Synonym

Book:Anarchism; from theory to practice

Source: Anarchism; from theory to practice