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Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? ↗

#civil-rights #osama-bin-laden #surveillance #terrorism #war-on-terror

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#century #child #darkness #degradation #great

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#aristocratic #attitude #culture #does #emotions

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#ethical #hence #judgment #means #norms

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#average #enables #exploit #his #judgment

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#application #critical #demands #judgment #looks

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#art #degree #europe #large #place

The critic should describe, and not prescribe. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#describe #prescribe #should

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#always #attainment #condition #earth #essential

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time. ↗