🧵 > One user wrote, "Tough being a socialist when boots cost more than my rent." ^1
> I doubt... the present average income per head throughout the world is more than about £ 5 a year. I rather doubt whether the attempt to live upon this sum would increase my efficiency as a propagandist; for even if by the practice of Yoga I learned to live without food, I should still not be able to pay for the paper, ink, and pen required in producing books. Perhaps I am mistaken in this; it may be that there is room for a modern Diogenes. ^2
#SocialistCigars

> ... if an opinion has solid intellectual reasons in its favour, it is possible to adopt an intellectual method of propaganda. Galileo persuaded mankind that the earth goes round the sun just as effectually as he would have done if he had made himself a martyr to the Inquisition.

https://russell-j.com/CIGAR.HTM
#SocialistCigars by #BertrandRussel

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