“But see you, we should travel by night. Dark times for dark business, as they says. No sun to bother Valeriana or you, Kaylana's surely no' disadvantaged, and I know I work better in darkness. Anybody looking for us will have a harder time of it. Besides, marching in daylight is for the heroes. If we're going to do this, we may as well go all out.”
― quote from Villains by Necessity
“In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.”
― quote from Villains by Necessity
“Half of an Assassin is just an Ass.”
― quote from Villains by Necessity
“Sometimes there's other reason for helping, other than personal gain or benefit," added Sam softly. "Friendship, companionship, trust and love are not confined to light alone...they are harder won, fewer seen...but no less real.”
― quote from Villains by Necessity
“There's more to people than some defined label," said Arcie. "There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin. There's prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition, habit, upbringing, alliance, pride, society, morals, animosity, preference, values, religion, circumstance, humor, perversity, honor, vengeance, jealousy, frustration...hundreds o' factors, from the past and in every present moment, as decides what some one person'll do in an individious situation.”
― quote from Villains by Necessity
“Some months earlier one of his oldest friends, Junto charter member Hugh Roberts, had written with news of the club and how the political quarreling in Philadelphia had continued to divide the membership. Franklin expressed hope that the squabbles would not keep Roberts from the meetings. “’tis now perhaps one of the oldest clubs, as I think it was formerly one of the best, in the King’s dominions; it wants but about two years of forty since it was established.” Few men were so lucky as to belong to such a group. “We loved and still love one another; we are grown grey together and yet it is too early to part. Let us sit till the evening of life is spent; the last hours were always the most joyous. When we can stay no longer ’tis time enough then to bid each other good night, separate, and go quietly to bed.” And”
― H.W. Brands, quote from The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
“This was the weird part with me and Miller. We both hated each other, but even more than that, he wanted my money and I wanted my notebook back. Neither of us had said anything about it to Stricker, even when we both got suspended. It was like middle school Mafia or something.”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
“ان نظام ما بعد الشمولية يلاحق الانسان بمبرراته في كل خطوة يخطوها تقريبا. يلاحقه بالطبع مرتديا قفازات الأيديولوجية. فالحياة فيه متشابكة كنسيج طحلباني من الكذب والأدعاء. ان حكومة البيرقراطية تسمى حكومة الشعب, وباسم الطبقة العاملة يتم استعباد الطبقة العاملة, الإذلال المستشري للإنسان يفسر على انه تحرير كامل للإنسان, ويطلق على حجب المعلومات تداول المعلومات, والتلاعب بالقوة التحكم العام في القوة والتعسف في استعمال القوة حفظ النظام العام, وقمع الثقافة تنمية الثقافة. كما يفسر نشر التأثير الامبريالي على انه دعم المضطهدين, والحجر على حرية الرأي على انه اعلى درجات الحرية, وتزوير الانتخابات على أنه قمة الديمقراطية, ومنع حركة التفكير على أنه أفضل اللآراء العلمية العالمية, والاحتلال على انه مساعدة الأشقاء. ان السلطة حبيسة الكاذبين, لذلك عليهم ان يزوروا. يزوروا الماضي والحاضر والمستقبل كما يزرون الاحصائيات. يدعون انهم لا يملكون الآلة الشرطية الجبارة والمهيمنة. يدعون انهم لا يدعون شيء.
ليس مطلوبا من الإنسان ان يصدق هذه التعمية. لكنه يجب ان يتصرف على انه يصدقها او يقبلها صاغرا, او يتعامل بصورة مقبولة مع من يتبعها.
لهذا هو مجبر ان يعيش في الكذب.
انه غير مضطر الى ان يصدق الكذب. يكفي ان يتقبل الحياة بكذبها ويتعايش معه. وبهذا يدعم النظام ويؤيده ويجعل من نفسه جزءا منه.”
― Václav Havel, quote from The Power of the Powerless
“Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.”
― Noah Levine, quote from Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
“Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment”
― Christopher L. Hayes, quote from Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
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