#nit

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#horror #humanity #terror #war #war-on-terror

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#definition #honesty #vision

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite. ↗

— William Blake

#infinity #opportunity #perception #potential #truth

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#democracy

ذو العقلِ يشقى في النعيمِ بعقلهِ وأخو الجهالةِ في الشقاوةِ ينعمُ ↗

— أبو الطيب المتنبي

#ignorance

I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries. ↗

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

#modernity #philosophy #ideology

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#kindness #politics-observation #observation

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded... ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#sanity #wise

Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#insanity #madness #idea

Grimes believed in what he did, with no doubts. Though he was older than me by over a decade, I suddenly felt old. Some things mark your soul, not in years but in blood and pain and selling off parts of yourself to get the bad guys, until you finally look in the mirror and aren’t sure which side you’re on anymore. There comes a point when having a badge doesn’t make you the good guy, it just makes you one of the guys. I needed to be one of the good guys, or what the hell was I doing? ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #supernatural #vampire #supernatural