But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the m… - Isabel Paterson

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But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.

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About Isabel Paterson

Isabel Paterson (22 January 1886 – 10 January 1961) was a best-selling writer, influential literary critic, and libertarian philosopher.

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Birth Name: Isabel Mary Bowler
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But in reason if one man has no right to command all other men--the expedient of despotism--neither has he any right to command even one other man; nor yet have ten men, or a million, the right to command even one other man, for ten times nothing is nothing, and a million times nothing is nothing.

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