#dom

This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the Civil War and the Second World War. But 1861 and 1941 each created a common national narrative (which happened to be the victors' narrative): both wars were about the country's survival and the expansion of the freedoms on which it was founded. Nothing like this consensus has formed around September 11th.... Indeed, the decade since the attacks has destroyed the very possibility of a common national narrative in this country. ↗

— George Packer

#freedom

Byproduct of the circulation of commodities, human circulation considered as a form of consumption, tourism comes down fundamentally to the freedom to go and see what has become banal. The economic planning of the frequenting of different places is already in itself the guarantee of their equivalence. The same modernization that has withdrawn the element of time from journeying, has also withdrawn the reality of space. ↗

— Tom McDonough

#freedom

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#inspirational #philosophy #wisdom #humor

I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#life #wisdom #humor

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#emotion #friendship #honesty #imagination #individuality

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain! ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#inspirational #philosophy #truth #war #wisdom

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#individuality #inspirational #mask #personality #revolution

May you live every day of your life. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#life #philosophy #wisdom #inspirational

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#wisdom #inspirational

If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. ↗

— Chad Sugg

#congratulations #hope #humanity #inspiration #inspirational