#vic

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#idiot #infernal-devices #law #nephilim #shadowhunters

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country ↗

— George S. Patton Jr.

#army #country #marines #military #navy

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writing-advice #understanding

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

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#dissent #patriotism #truth-telling #president

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#civic-responsibility #inaugural-address #politics #responsibility

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#regret #stupidity #victory #ignorance

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poetry #wise

Where are we going?" asked Victor. "If I'm allowed to ask." I squirmed around in my seat so that I could look him in the eye. "That's what you're going to tell us. As hard as it is to believe, we didn't do all that just because we missed your pleasant company." "That is hard to believe. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dragomir #hathaway #rose #victor #spirit

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#service #tragedy