#demo

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy. ↗

— Dan Brown

#humans #tragedy

Oh, leave it,” said Jem, kicking Will, not without affection, lightly on the ankle. “She’s annexed my plan!” “Will,” Tessa said firmly. “Do you care more about the plan being enacted or about getting credit for it?” Will pointed a finger at her. “That,” he said. “The second one. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa #will #light

no demon can posses you if you maintain the ability to turn and laugh at it ↗

— Rachel Roberts

#trials

After a week passed it had dawned on me what I was and, more importantly, that I needed to do a little more research before climbing into one of you people. ↗

— Michael Siemsen

#possession #home

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#betrayal #handle #demons

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others. ↗

— Simone Weil

#democracy #fascism #military #police #military

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#elections #fools #government #intelligence #masses

Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#voldemort #death

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#demon #depth #experience #god #his

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#access #capacity #confining #democratic #democratic system