#emo

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#government #politics #republican #elections

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used. ↗

— Paul Collier

#elections #power #elections

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment. ↗

— Sheri Holman

#election #elections

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humanity #nothing #screwtape #soul #ambition

Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces. ↗

— Kate Morton

#memory #war #perspective

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#ed #emotions #forced #his #really

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq. ↗

— John Bolton

#democracy #favour #i #i am #iraq

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself. ↗

— Tommy Bond

#any #anyone #anything #been #blake

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. ↗

— David Borenstein

#emotions #feelings #his #logical #man

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#good #you