#pol

The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs. ↗

— Teodor Flonta

#life #love #secret-police #transylvania #vampires

t’s nobody’s fault that our hearts work in their little strange ways. It’s nobody’s fault that we fall for one another. It’s nobody’s fault that we can’t have the love we yearn. It’s nobody’s fault that we never learn. So, save your apology, my dear. Save it for later days. Save it for better days. ↗

— Noor Iskandar

#faults #hope #love #love

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#politics #revenge #men

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. ↗

— Plato

#men

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#apologize #finest #force #good #men

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country? ↗

— George Washington

#politics #men

The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms. ↗

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#real-men #romania #romanian #men

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons. ↗

— Criss Jami

#backwards #clever #confusion #conservatism #conservative

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#theology #war #men

History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -- ↗

— Abba Solomon Eban

#men