bmacDonald94

bmacDonald94, 2 days ago to random

“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

bmacDonald94, 2 days ago to random

"Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within."
Hannah Arendt

kat, 3 days ago to random

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bmacDonald94, 3 days ago to random

“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”
James Baldwin

bmacDonald94, 3 days ago to random

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
James Baldwin

bmacDonald94, 4 days ago to random

"The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee."
Christopher Hitchens

bmacDonald94, 4 days ago to random

"A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. It’s not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It’s immoral."
Christopher Hitchens

bmacDonald94, 5 days ago to random

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

bmacDonald94, 6 days ago to random

"Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions."
Mark Twain

bmacDonald94, 6 days ago to random

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain

bmacDonald94, 6 days ago to random

"The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there."
Christopher Hitchens

bmacDonald94, 7 days ago to random

American Politics ~
A shell game without the Pea . . .

bmacDonald94, 8 days ago to random

"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

bmacDonald94, 8 days ago to random

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
Simone Weil

bmacDonald94, 9 days ago to random

"I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing."
Mary Oliver

bmacDonald94, 9 days ago to random

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
Aldous Huxley

bmacDonald94, 10 days ago to random

"You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you."
James A. Baldwin

bmacDonald94, 10 days ago to random

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
James A. Baldwin

bmacDonald94, 10 days ago to random

In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that."
Bill McKibben

bmacDonald94, 12 days ago to random

"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason... Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
Frederick Douglass

bmacDonald94, 12 days ago to random

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
Aldous Huxley

bmacDonald94, 14 days ago to random

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
Margaret Mead

bmacDonald94, 14 days ago to random

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
Margaret Mead