#ness

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?" I speculated such a suggestion could be seen as a serious deviancy. Melphi seemed delited. "Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Melphi relplied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. ↗

— David Mitchell

#equality #hatred #justice #perception #racism

I am unfair and unjust, not to you but to myself. ↗

— Stef Harder

#fair #self-love #self-worth #self-worthiness #equality

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. ↗

— Bono

#i #i think #knew #madness #marriage

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! ↗

— Daniel Boone

#almighty #ambition #associates #banish #goodness

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does? ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#endings #usefulness #death

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#delicate #extraordinarily #japan #learn #like

Government is not show business. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#government #show #show business

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#affordable #affordable health care #always #american #american economy

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#impossible #obstacle #overcome #stubbornness #stupid

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#happiness #love #philosophy #death