The moral confusion on too many campuses after the October 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis fits a familiar pattern. The acceptability of the speech depends on the speaker. Individuals from oppressed groups are given leeway to target oppressor groups through disruptions and threats. This victimology allows Palestinians and their supporters (the oppressed) to target, intimidate, and harass Jews (the oppressors).
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.
~ George Santayana
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Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.
~ Arthur Koestler
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We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
~ John Steinbeck
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It wasn’t the New World that mattered … Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Pat Benatar – Promises In The Dark (Live)
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
~ James Baldwin
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It’s always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
~ Diane Arbus
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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
~ Mark Twain
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Disturbance comes only from within—from our own perceptions.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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