menOnce men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions. No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. The most positive men are the most credulous. The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts – the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts – the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.