If untruths become part of our language–untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech–then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning become subjective, society breaks down. The rule of law becomes a grey area. Commands become suggestions. And how do you keep anyone, including yourself, accountable for actions based on ambiguous language? . Alex Latimer
The soul is healed by being with children.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.
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Cornel West
I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do – to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited...
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Jess C. Scott
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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Albert Camus
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If untruths become part of our language–untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech–then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning become subjective, society breaks down....
It was only in the middle–between the immense and the minute–that sadness seemed to exist.
Morality doesn’t exist in space, only in the spaces between people.
When you look at it objectively, that’s what most colonists do–they land then find a way of wiping out their competition. In America is was blankets covered with smallpox and in Australia it was permits to hunt aborigines. If you wipe a whole people from...
The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.
