#wards

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#blind #direct #drive #entire #entire generation

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#better off #civilization #develop #expense #first

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. ↗

— James Hillman

#attempts #black #bowels #depression #hatred

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#afterwards #anything #hard #really #then

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. ↗

— Eric Holder

#been #continue #cowards #essentially #ethnic

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#approached #backwards #basic #failure #get

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#away #becomes #been #death #deeper

I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#been #course #feel #grammy #great

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #like #no reason #reason #things

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#consistent #double #freedom #goal #logical