#right

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #books #break #call #chapters

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #been #born #gay #gay rights

In this society, or rather our social construct, where almost all is left up to the individual’s interpretation, the line between virtue and vice seems less perceptible than ever before. At least in my experience, of something I have noted repeatedly and in my observation of people’s communication regarding the issue, I have come to my own conclusions. Albeit arrogantly, and with a sense of disdain for the tales that have been “made-up” in support of human hypocrisy, I am convinced that most people cannot discern between right and wrong, good and evil and least of all, true or false. ↗

— Peyton Dracco

#hypocrisy #right-and-wrong #subjectivity #truth #communication

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ↗

— Plato

#all things #anything #each #ease #else

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. ↗

— Plato

#disciplined #educated #love #orderly #rightly

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. ↗

— Plato

#arts #being #capable #hardly #human

It is right to give every man his due. ↗

— Plato

#every #every man #give #his #man

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in. ↗