The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.
~ Timothy Snyder
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Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Thirty years from now, Americans will likely recall a witness table of presidents—representing not top corporations in one single sector, but the nation’s most powerful educational institutions—refusing to speak plainly, defiantly rejecting any sense that they are part of a “we,” and exhibiting smug moralistic certainty even as they embraced bizarrely immoral positions about anti-Semitism and genocide.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.
~ Diane Arbus
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Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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The virtue that falls furthest in the pagan pantheon of traits is humility. In the ancient Greek epics, humility is not even reckoned a virtue.
~ David Wolpe via The Atlantic
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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
~ Franz Kafka
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Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
~ Rollo May
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I don’t like eloquence. If it isn’t effective enough to pierce your hide, it’s tiresome, and if it is effective enough, it muddles your thoughts.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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