Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–however it may come, these minds will give it a habitation; it is something to assert strongly and bravely, something to fill up the void of spontaneous ideas, something to impose on others with the authority of conscious right; it is at once a staff and a baton.

~ George Eliot

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Wherever they went—Moscow, Tehran, the Syrian coast, Switzerland—a furnished house, villa, or apartment awaited the young couple. And their philosophies of life were the same: We have only one life! So take everything life can give, except one thing: the birth of a child. For a child is an idol who sucks dry the juices of your being without any return for your sacrifices, not even ordinary gratitude.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 Bourgeois Indulgence Childlessness Yolo Youth

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

~ Howard Zinn

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