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with disdain

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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain. Claude Adrien Helvétius

Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers. Peter Kropotkin

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt. John Derbyshire

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