#sm

Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought about nothing but mischief and misery. Men were once happy and prosperous in the good old days preceding the Industrial Revolution. Now under capitalism the immense majority are starving paupers ruthlessly exploited by rugged individualists. For these scoundrels nothing counts but their moneyed interests. They do not produce good and really useful things, but only what will yield the highest profits. They poison bodies with alcoholic beverages and tobacco, and souls and minds with tabloids, lascivious books and silly moving pictures. The “ideological superstructure” of capitalism is a literature of decay and degradation, the burlesque show and the art of striptease, the Hollywood pictures and the detective stories. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#economics #greed #vice #art

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#fact

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#philosophy #humans

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist. ↗

— Albert Camus

#god #religion #believe

So? What are you going to do about it? Throw your mashed potatoes at me? I'm consumed by terror. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#terrorism

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

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#responsibility #stop-terrorism #terror #terrorism #terrorism

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? ↗

— Howard Zinn

#propaganda #terrorism #war #terrorism

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#terrorism

Terror made me cruel . . . ↗