Adam Bellow quotes

“Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.”
-- Adam Bellow

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“Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion”
-- Adam Bellow

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“What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.”
-- Adam Bellow

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“In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.

“It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.”

“The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.”

“More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.”

“Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.”

“The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.”

“If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed”

“Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1875). “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays”, p.5

“Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.”

“It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.”