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Secular humanism propounds a rational ethics based on human experiences. It us consequentialist: ethical choices are defined by their results.

— Secular Humanism Defined by Tom Flynn (Page 6)

There is every reason to believe that sceptics and non-conformists exist in every human society; what varies is how others react to them.

— The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow (Page 97)

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle, and that once one begins to enjoy a little freedom one ends by wanting it all.

— An Anarchist Programme by Errico Malatesta

But there is a further question: if capitalism were to be destroyed and a government were to be left in office, the government, through the concession of all kinds of privileges, would create capitalism anew for, being unable to please everybody it would need an economically powerful class to support it in return for the legal and material protection it would receive.

— An Anarchist Programme by Errico Malatesta

But just as we earlier witnessed a confrontation between two very different concepts of equality, here we are ultimately witnessing a clash between very different concepts of individualism. … Insofar as we can speak of communism, it existed not in opposition to but in support of individual freedom.

— The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow (Page 48)

In addition to monthly workdays, the community takes on one major project each year. … "The annual project each year helps maintain some of the positive cooperative energy we had when we were planning Drejerbanken," one resident told us.

— Creating Cohousing by Kathryn McCamant, Charles Durrett (Page 100)