Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
social-values safety diversity
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.
faces conservative liberalism
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
veterans-day time peace
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
veterans-day time motivation
These are the times that try men's souls.
wickedness age-of-reason humankind
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
freedom fear pain
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
tyranny greater
There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.
supposing-that islands care
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.
arms lasts conservative
The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.
degenerates aristocracy tendencies
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.
aristocracy injustice tyranny
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
equality men heaven
All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.
intimacy infancy lasting
The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.
oppression grows ifs
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.