#red

Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own self, which demands that he gives account for the sun which he uselessly squanders, for the springs of energy in his organism, the gold of wisdom in the mines of his brains. The masses work, slog, forget. They drink the alcohol of their sweat. Work is a flight from responsibility and God. Since the mystic beliefs have been banned from Europe, pillars of glory have been erected to rationality in order to put something in place of the cross: the French Revolution named its goddess reason, the Russians named their Moloch work. But the machine called Europe is running idle: it fills stomachs with fake bread, builds artificial houses with iron paper, the products are bad, the pay meager, and at the end of the six holy work days is the unholy Sunday which one sleeps through out of fear of the great boredom which is infecting Europe. Sunday, the day of idleness, is nowadays a punishment for Christianity, the cities collapse into soulless ruins, nature is just a backdrop for dusty sports. Doing nothing out of principle, my dear, is nowadays the most violent form of revolt. ↗

— Iwan Goll

#work #nature

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#bored #earth #god #heaven #man

The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#been #being #born #children #considered

There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar circumstances instead become extinct; otherwise what takes place is racial mixing with other elements in which no assimilation or real evolution occurs. The result of this interbreeding closely resembles Mendel’s laws concerning heredity: once it disappears in the phenotype, the primitive element survives in the form of a separated, latent heredity that is capable of cropping up in sporadic apparitions, even though it is always endowed with a character of heterogeneity in regard to the superior type. ↗

— Julius Evola

#extinction #heredity #nature

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#massachusetts #new-england #redcoats #england

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#iran #islamic-republic #sex #islam

Hatred is inveterate anger. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#hatred #inveterate

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#culture #cultured #enough #first #hand

She was a woman with red hair and green eyes— the traits which Satan supposedly relished most in mortal females. ↗

— Robert Shea

#satan

The way you blunder from one catastrophe to the next, it's a wonder the whole galaxy doesn't hate you. The galaxy is a big place, General. You provincial military types don't get far enough out to really see that. -General Tagon & Captain Kevyn Andreyasn ↗

— Howard Tayler

#galaxy #hatred #military #sci-fi #sci-fi