Daily Quotes

" Death is the undoing of all our sorrows, an end beyond which our ills cannot go; it returns us to that peace in which we reposed before we were born. If someone pities the dead, let him also pity those not yet born."

Seneca, Essay: To Marcia

whoever scorns his own life is master of yours

Seneca

"Washington [DC] is full of corn-pone country p*ssy!"

The better man may win, but he will be the worse man if he does

Seneca

He who has ownership of himself has lost nothing.  But how many men are in ownership of themselves?

Seneca

To the privileged, equality feels like oppression. - unknown

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realise truth. - Pablo Picasso

Life is an endless series of train wrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness. - Deadpool

On 6/16/2020 at 3:26 AM, jkjk said:

To the privileged, equality feels like oppression. - unknown

Yep and since everybody feels oppressed nowadays, how do we see where the privileges are? By challenging our own beliefs, questioning them if facts contradict them or reinforcing them if facts confirm them. Not many can do that nowadays.

Also, equality of opportunity is fair, but equality of outcome is oppression, but I'll stop there otherwise I might ramble on again.

"It always seems impossible until it is done" - Nelson Mandela

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."