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October 21, 2025

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), Anglo-Polish novelist, The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed. (London: 1986), p.57

What ideas, norms, beliefs would you sweep away in a fit of revolutionary zeal?

Overthrow one convention and overthrowing another is all the more easy. Revolutions feed on themselves.


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