#north

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[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.


Adam Johnson


#capitalism #communism #economics #north-korea #obedience

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory


Plato


#victory

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives -- envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibted, less corruptly governed northerners. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. But they have more fun than we do ... They caution[ed] themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn't let ourselves go, mustn't descend to the level of the ... jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it -- then you know. The south has got you.


Susan Sontag


#culture #north #north-and-south #northerners #perceptions

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.


Christopher Hitchens


#death #exhumation #hugo-chavez #kim-il-sung #kim-jong-il

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.


Elizabeth Gaskell


#north-and-south #infidelity

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.


Aaron Tveit


#grew #i #miles #new #new york

Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric


Charlaine Harris


#eric-northman #sookie-stackhouse #beauty

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.


Vicki Baum


#ice #lonely #north #north pole #pole

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.


Ahmed Ben Bella


#become #companies #creates #global #good

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.


Catfish Hunter


#couple #friends #gave #had #here