Quotes thread

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Trajan

Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.

- Pascal, Pensees

O'Zebedee
@thomas777


Bob Dylan Roof

Realtalk from MacIntyre

“Modern nation-states which masquerade as embodiments of community are always to be resisted. The modern nation-state, in whatever guise, is a dangerous and unmanageable institution, presenting itself on the one hand as a bureaucratic supplier of goods and services, which is always about to, but never actually does, give its clients value for money, and on the other as a repository of sacred values, which from time to time invites one to lay down one’s life on its behalf; it is like being asked to die for the telephone company.” - Alasdair MacIntyre​
O'Zebedee
Jim Doak, Asset Manager, Compares Tax Hike On The Rich To Ethnic Cleansing

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Clancy
The need which might resist central control has already been suppressed by the control of the individual consciousness. -Theodor Adorno
Niccolo and Donkey
Roland Thomas777 popfop Kirillov

This speaks to our previous discussion about the gulf between classes in certain European lands in the 19th century.
Byssus
My father was an Indo-European, my mother a Turk; your father was a Turk, your mother an Indo-European. -- An Lushan to Qośu Khan

Tatsız Turk bolmas, bashsız börk bolmas. (There is no Turk without an Iranian, just as there is no hat without a head.) -- Mahmud al-Kashgari
Niccolo and Donkey
SweetLeftFoot Roland President Camacho Ferdinand

Bronze Age Pervert
What's the first quote originally...surely he didn't say Indo-European...
Byssus