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Sovereign is he who decides on the exception. ↗

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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality. ↗

— James S. Kunen

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When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people. ↗

— Kelly Bryson

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Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not selfish sexual competitors, so it ignores equilibria altogether. Conservatism pretends that there is only one possible equilibrium—a nostalgic version of the status quo—that society could play. Libertarianism ignores the possibility of equilibrium selection at the level of rational social discourse, and assumes that decentralized market dynamics will magically lead to equilibria that yield the highest aggregate social benefits. Far from being a scientific front for a particular set of political views, modern evolutionary psychology makes most standard views look simplistic and unimaginitive. ↗

— Geoffrey Miller

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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. ↗

— Henry Adams

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ↗