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Dead Toad Scrolls
“Society inures us to acts of immorality and decadence. We passively accept violence and exploitation as part of the cultural normative. When the Wall Street Kings crashed their money mobile, Congress was quick to pass bailout bills. How many of these same Congressmen and Wall Street millionaires do you think ever reached into their pocket to buy a homeless person a sandwich?”
Violence
Homeless
Decadence
Immorality
Immoral
Homeless People
Immoral Act
Immoral Virtue
The Social History of Art: Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age
“The operetta was the product of a world of ‘laissez faire, laissez passer’,
that is, a world of economic, social and moral liberalism, a world in which everyone was able to do what he liked, so long as he abstained from questioning the system itself. This limitation meant, on the one hand, very wide, on the other, very narrow frontiers.
The same government that summoned Flaubert and Baudelaire to a court of law tolerated the most insolent social satire, the most disrespectful ridiculing of the authoritarian régime, the court, the army and the bureaucracy, in the works of Offenbach.
But it tolerated his frolics only because they were not or did not seem to be dangerous, because he confined himself to a public whose loyalty was beyond doubt and needed no other safety-valve, in order to be quite happy, than this apparently harmless banter.
The joke seems mischievous only to us; the contemporary public missed the sinister undertone which we can hear in the frantic rhythm of Offenbach’s galops and cancans. The entertainment was, however, not quite so harmless. The operetta demoralized people, not because it scoffed at everything ‘venerable’, not because its deriding of antiquity, of classical tragedy, of romantic opera was only criticism of society in disguise, but because it shattered the belief in authority without denying it in principle. The immorality of the operetta consisted in the thoughtless tolerance with which it conducted its criticism of the corrupt system of government and the depraved society of the time, in the appearance of harmlessness which it gave to the frivolity of the little prostitutes, the extravagant gallants and the lovable old ‘viveurs’. Its lukewarm, hesitant criticism merely encouraged corruption. One could, however, expect nothing else but an ambiguous attitude from artists who were successful, who loved success more than anything and whose success was bound up with the continuance of this indolent and pleasure-seeking society.”
Success
Morality
Operetta
Offenbach
The First Step: An Essay on the Morals of Diet, to Which Are Added Two Stories
“Fasting is an indispensable condition of a good life; but in fasting, as in abstinence in general, the question arises with what shall we begin: how to fast,—how often to eat, what to eat, what to avoid eating? And as we can do no work seriously without regarding the necessary order of sequence, so also we cannot fast without knowing where to begin,—with what to commence abstinence in food.
Fasting! And even an analysis of how to fast, and where to begin! The notion seems ridiculous to the majority of men.
I remember how an evangelical preacher who was attacking monastic asceticism and priding himself on his originality, once said to me, "My Christianity is not concerned with fasting and privations, but with beefsteaks." Christianity, or virtue in general—with beefsteaks!
During the long period of darkness and of the absence of all guidance, Pagan or Christian, so many wild, immoral ideas became infused into our life, especially into that lower region concerning the first steps toward a good life,—our relation to food, to which no one paid any attention,—that it is difficult for us even to understand the audacity and senselessness of upholding Christianity or virtue with beefsteaks.
We are not horrified by this association solely because a strange thing has befallen us. We look and see not: listen and hear not. There is no bad odor, no sound, no monstrosity, to which man cannot become accustomed, so that he ceases to remark that which would strike a man unaccustomed to it. Precisely so it is in the moral region. Christianity and morality with beefsteaks!”
Christianity
Morality
Virtue
Asceticism
Fasting
Beefsteaks
The Social History of Art: Volume 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism
“Richardson' moralizing novels contain the germ of the most immoral art that has ever existed, namely the incitement to indulge in those wish-fantasies in which decency is only a means to an end, and the inducement to occupy oneself to mere illusions instead of striving for the solution of the real problems of life. They also, for that reason, denote one of the most important dividing lines in the history of modern literature; previously the works of an author were either really moral or immoral, but since his time the books which want to appear moral in most cases merely moralize. In the struggle against the upper classes the bourgeois loses his innocence, and as he has to emphasize his virtue all too often, he becomes a hypocrite.”
Art
Fiction
Hypocrite
Wish Fulfillment
Bourgeois
Moralize
Pre Romanticism
Reading Public
“I am injustice,” said tyranny.
“I am lawlessness,” said corruption.
“I am inequality,” said bigotry.
“I am intolerance,” said racism.
“I am destruction,” said immorality.
“I am independence,” said freedom.
“I am fairness,” said justice.
“I am humanity,” said compassion.
“I am tolerance,” said understanding.
“I am restoration,” said goodness.”
Philosophy Quotes
Enlightenment Quotes
Africa Quotes
African Philosophy Quotes
Philosopher Quotes
Guru Quotes
Sage Quotes
Matshona Dhliwayo Quotes
African Philosopher Quotes
Solomonology Quotes
Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“Carefree Scamps like you and I go through transition stages from time to time, and one of the exceptional things about life's challenges is that we get to discover what we’re truly capable of. You, my friend, are more spirited, resolute, and fearless than you can ever imagine. And on the flip side you’re more immoral and foolhardy than most people could ever dream of being.
Isn’t that great?”
Challenges
Capability
Fearless Quotes
Challenge Inspiration Motivation
Challenges Of Life
Foolhardiness
Transitions In Life
Fearless People
Fearless Life
Transition Spirituality
Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible
“Guerrillas of Desire' offers a contentious hypothesis: the fundamental assumptions underlying Left and radical organizing, including many strains of anarchism, is wrong. I do not mean organizationally dishonest, ideologically inappropriate, or immoral. I mean empirically incorrect. ... Strategies ... are predicated on the assumption that working class and poor people are unorganized and not resisting. Illustrating that everyday resistance is a factor in revolution and a form of politics, maintaining that its effects on overt rebellion and crises are measureable, requires the reversal of this assumption. Working class and poor people ... are already organized and resisting.”
Resistance
Anarchism
Social Change
Resist
Leftism
Radical Politics
“You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose.”
Star Trek
Badass Captain
Next Gen
How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that there is something seriously wrong with this system. Capitalism is a system that puts rich people on a pedestal, legalizes greed, and enables the rich to exploit the poor.
It’s morally wrong.
What kind of a God would support something so immoral? Would Jesus support the exploitation of the poor by the rich? No, of course not.
If you think of yourself as a follower of Christ’s teachings, if you consider yourself a good person, you are morally obligated to be against greed. It’s your duty as a good person to be against exploitation. It’s your moral duty to be against predatory capitalism.”
Immortality
Greed
Capitalism
Greed Quotes
Anti Capitalism
Capitalism Quotes
Democratic Socialism
Predatory Behavior
Ethical Behavior
Ethics Quotes
“Contentment has no enemies, despair has no friends;
apathy has many acquaintances, satisfaction has many friends.
Joy has no enemies, sorrow has no friends;
grief has many acquaintances, happiness has many friends.
Forgiveness has no enemies, bitterness has no friends;
vengeance has many acquaintances, sympathy has many friends.
Truth has no enemies, falsehood has no friends;
dishonesty has many acquaintances, trustworthiness has many friends.
Patience has no enemies, intolerance has no friends;
restlessness has many acquaintances, long suffering has many friends.
Sincerity has no enemies, deceitfulness has no friends;
hypocrisy has many acquaintances, genuineness has many friends.
Kindness has no enemies, hostility has no friends;
meanness has many acquaintances, hospitality has many friends.
Charity has no enemies, stinginess has no friends;
miserliness has many acquaintances, generosity has many friends.
Pleasure has no enemies, pain has no friends;
boredom has many acquaintances, excitement has many friends.
Faith has no enemies, despair has no friends;
doubt has many acquaintances, courage has many friends.
Wisdom has no enemies, ignorance has no friends;
folly has many acquaintances, prudence has many friends.
Virtue has no enemies, vice has no friends;
immorality has many acquaintances, goodness has many friends.
Love has no enemies, wrath has no friends;
anger has many acquaintances, compassion has many friends.
Life has no enemies, death has no friends;
regret has many acquaintances, existence has many friends.
Time has no enemies, procrastination has no friends;
fate has many acquaintances, destiny has many friends.”
Wisdom Quotes
Philosophy Quotes
Knowledge Quotes
Wise Quotes
Wise Quotations
Philosopher Quotes
Guru Quotes
Matshona Dhliwayo Quotes
Philosopher Quotations
Philosophy Quotations
“Poverty doesn't scare me, ignorance does.
Work doesn't scare me, laziness does.
Pleasure doesn't scare me, pain does.
Charity doesn't scare me, weakness does.
Chastisement doesn't scare me, flattery does.
Friendship doesn't scare me, betrayal does.
Enmity doesn't scare me, anger does.
Marriage doesn't scare me, divorce does.
Love doesn't scare me, heartache does.
Sex doesn't scare me, parenting does.
Ambition doesn't scare me, envy does.
Adversity doesn't scare me, boredom does.
Risk doesn't scare me, cowardice does.
Competition doesn't scare me, mediocrity does.
Defeat doesn't scare me, weakness does.
Misfortune doesn't scare me, bitterness does.
Maturing doesn't scare me, infirmity does.
Life doesn't scare me, regret does.
Aging doesn't scare me, death does.
Existence doesn't scare me, oblivion does.
War doesn't scare me, bloodshed does.
Government doesn't scare me, corruption does.
Politics doesn't scare me, manipulation does.
Revolution doesn't scare me, tyranny does.
Rebellion doesn't scare me, slavery does.
Ideology doesn't scare me, fanaticism does.
Religion doesn't scare me, immorality does.
Faith doesn't scare me, hopelessness does.
Morality doesn't scare me, evil does.
God doesn't scare me, extremism does.”
Wisdom Quotes
Philosophy Quotes
Knowledge Quotes
Wise Quotes
Wise Quotations
Philosopher Quotes
Guru Quotes
Matshona Dhliwayo Quotes
Philosopher Quotations
Philosophy Quotations
“When I am around old people,
they think I am too foolish.
When I am around young people,
they think I am too intelligent.
When I am around learned people,
they think I am too simple.
When I am around educated people,
they think I am too wise.
When I am around proud people,
they think I am too weak.
When I am around mighty people,
they think I am too meek.
When I am around cowardly people,
they think I am too reckless.
When I am around bold people,
they think I am too brave.
When I am around modest people,
they think I am too arrogant.
When I am around eminent people,
they think I am too humble.
When I am around virtuous people,
they think I am too complacent.
When I am around immoral people,
they think I am too narrow.”
Wisdom Quotes
Philosophy Quotes
Wise Quotes
Wise Quotations
Philosopher Quotes
Guru Quotes
Matshona Dhliwayo Quotes
Philosopher Quotations
Philosophy Quotations
Guru Quotations
The Trump-Russia Hustle: The Truth about Russia's attack on America & how Donald Trump turned Republicans into Putin's puppets
“The Russian oligarchic system is the quintessence of statist depravity, where all industry is controlled by a small number of men ruthless enough to rise to the top of a corrupt patronage system, where government serves the interests of elites, money and privilege flow to the top, the people are exploited through a venomous cocktail of brutality and graft, and truth is the enemy of the state.
Russian oligarchy is economic survival of the fittest, the ultimate, balls-out Darwinian experiment in wealth consolidation by the most wicked, immoral and dishonest ― government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich at the expense and misery of everyone else.”
Russia
Putin
Government Quotes
Government Corruption
Oligarchy
Oligarchs
Vladimir Putin
Putin Quotes
Putinism
The Rich Quotes
“Because of greed and immorality on the part of the foreign invaders that came to enrich themselves, and local tribal politicians that abused the trust placed in them by their people, much of Liberia’s wealth has been squandered. The two civil wars and the Ebola plague that the indigenous people had to endure were devastating and yet, in spite of the pain that has been inflicted, the country still has great potential and is waiting for the influence of a new generation of Liberians that hopefully will have a more positive outlook. Although the United States and the American Colonization Society helped form and sometimes stabilize the country, Liberia is the only African country that has never been a colony.
As usual, it is not because of the many impoverished people that inhabit the country, but rather it is because of human greed and the lust for power of the few, that the country floundered and was plunged into two unforgiving civil wars. During the time that I was there, I was a young man who looked idealistically at the world as an exciting place to find adventure. Fortunately I still see things through the same youthful eyes, and for that I’m grateful! However, I have also become more cynical and can now better understand that every rosebush has thorns.”
Poor People
Ebola
African History
Liberia History
Civil Wars
Dead Toad Scrolls
“There is no generosity, true acts of goodness, or love without clear-sightedness. I began writing searching for wisdom, questioning from whence it comes. I now repent in dust and ashes. Age-old anxiety weighed heavily on my weakened soul. Sadness and bitter awareness of the futility of living an immoral life forced rigorous self-examination, renunciation of artificial goals and idols. I sought to eradicate a ludicrous egotistic self. I am filled with inscrutable yearning to live a heighted quality of existence that the superior men in history attained by recognizing that their former life was an illusion. In the dead of night, when we speak truths that elude airing in daylight, I torched the castle that housed my solipsistic being that sought fulfillment of its selfish needs. In the second half of existence, I hope to drop attachments, the destructive desires of wanting, and begin a journey seeking intellectual fulfillment of an artistic being. I wish to live in perfect harmony by organizing all that life proffers and conducting personal affairs in a coordinated manner, which the inherent chaos of the world cannot disturb.”
Know Thyself
Memoir
Autobiography
Self Examination
Self Study
Memoir Writing
Essayist
Personal Essays
Writing Memoir
Know Oneself
Dead Toad Scrolls
“All humankind is born of the same inner goodness and fundamental ruthlessness as all the other creatures of nature. Man can never totally divorce himself from the beast that comprises part of his essential nature. It is not that our inner natures are entirely self-centered or completely filled with goodness. We can choose to make moral or immoral choices.”
Goodness
Innocence
Loss Of Innocence
Goodness Quotes
Ruthless
Self Centered
Ruthlessness
Moral Choices
Ruthless People
“Curses to the crooked, to the liars and to the immoral people, because only truth must triumph.”
Truth
Lies
Deception
Deceit
Real
Fake
Liars
Immorality
Fake News
Crookedness
“The single human being is a piece of fatum from the front and from the rear, one law more, one necessity more for all that is yet to come and to be. To say to him, "Change yourself!" is to demand that everything be changed, even retroactively. And indeed there have been consistent moralists who wanted man to be different, that is, virtuous — they wanted him remade in their own image, as a prig: to that end, they negated the world! No small madness! No modest kind of immodesty!
Morality, insofar as it condemns for its own sake, and not out of regard for the concerns, considerations, and contrivances of life, is a specific error with which one ought to have no pity — an idiosyncrasy of degenerates which has caused immeasurable harm.
We others, we immoralists, have, conversely, made room in our hearts for every kind of understanding, comprehending, and approving. We do not easily negate; we make it a point of honor to be affirmers. More and more, our eyes have opened to that economy which needs and knows how to utilize everything that the holy witlessness of the priest, the diseased reason in the priest, rejects — that economy in the law of life which finds an advantage even in the disgusting species of the prigs, the priests, the virtuous. What advantage? But we ourselves, we immoralists, are the answer.”
Twilightofidols
“And now consider the rarer cases of which I spoke, the last idealists we have today amongst philosophers and scholars: do we perhaps have, in them, the sought-for opponents of ascetic, priestly Christian ideals, the latter’s counter-idealists, who are the atheistic proponents of science?
In fact, those scientists believe themselves to be, these ‘unbelievers’ (because that is what they all are); that seems to be their last remnant of faith, to be opponents of this ideal, so serious are they on this score, so passionate is their every word and gesture: – does what they believe therefore need to be true? . . . We ‘knowers’ are positively mistrustful of any kind of believers; our mistrust has gradually trained us to conclude the opposite to what was formerly concluded: namely, to presuppose, wherever the strength of a belief becomes prominent, a certain weakness, even improbability of proof. Even we do not deny that faith ‘brings salvation’:114 precisely for that reason we deny that faith proves anything, – a strong faith which brings salvation is grounds for suspicion of the object of its faith, it does not establish truth, it establishes a certain probability – of deception. What now is the position in this case? – These ‘no’-sayers and outsiders of today, those who are absolute in one thing, their demand for intellectual rigour [Sauberkeit], these hard, strict, abstinent, heroic minds who make up the glory of our time, all these pale atheists, Antichrists, immoralists, nihilists, these scep- tics, ephectics,115 hectics of the mind [des Geistes] (they are one and all the latter in a certain sense), these last idealists of knowledge in whom, alone, intellectual conscience dwells and is embodied these days, – they believe they are all as liberated as possible from the ascetic, Christian ideal, these ‘free, very free spirit atheists’: and yet, I will tell them what they themselves cannot see – because they are standing too close to themselves – this ideal is quite simply their ideal as well, they themselves represent it nowadays, and perhaps no one else, they themselves are its most intellectualized product, its most advanced front-line troops and scouts, its most insidious, delicate and elusive form of seduction: – if I am at all able to solve riddles, I wish to claim to do so with this pronouncement! . . . These are very far from being free spirits: because atheistic proponents of science still believe in truth . . . When the Christian Crusaders in the East fell upon that invincible order of Assassins, the order of free spirits par excellence, the lowest rank of whom lived a life of obedience the like of which no monastic order has ever achieved, somehow or other they received an inkling of that symbol and watchword that was reserved for the highest ranks alone as their secretum: ‘nothing is true, everything is permitted’ . . . Certainly that was freedom of the mind [des Geistes], with that the termination of the belief in truth was announced. . . . Has a European or a Christian free-thinker [Freigeist] ever strayed into this proposition and the labyrinth of its consequences?”
Geneologyofmorals
Westaschristianmetaphysics
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
“Let us put it generally: if a regime is immoral, its subjects are free from all obligations to it.”
Exile
Civil Disobedience
1948
Freedom Of Conscience
1977
Nations In Exile
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.”
Nonviolence
Civil Rights Quotations
The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement
“When we pay attention to this history, a pattern emerges: first, the Redeemers attacked voting rights. Then they attacked public education, labor, fair tax policies, and progressive leaders. Then they took over the state and federal courts, so they could be used to render rulings that would undermine the hope of a new America. This effort culminated in the landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, which upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring segregation of public facilities under the doctrine "separate but equal." And then they made sure that certain elements had guns so that they could return the South back to the status quo ante, according to their deconstructive immoral philosophy.”
Religion
Morality
Equality
Jesus
Social Justice
Fusion Politics
Accomplishing the Impossible: What God Does, What We Can Do
“The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public opinion polls to shape their plans. Results of those polls are informative. But they could hardly be used as grounds to justify disobedience to God’s commandments! Even if “everyone is doing it,” wrong is never right. Evil, error, and darkness will never be truth, even if popular. A scriptural warning so declares: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness.” After World War I, a rather risqué song became popular. In promoting immorality, it vowed that 50 million people cannot be wrong. But in fact, 50 million people can be wrong—totally wrong. Immorality is still immorality in the eyes of God, who one day will judge all of our deeds and desires.”
Truth
Public Opinion
Peer Pressure
Popularity
Immorality
Subjective Truth
Social Climate
The Jennifer Morgue
“The perfect criminal, should he or she exist, would be the one who is never apprehended - indeed, the one whose crimes may be huge but unnoticed, or indeed miscategorized not as crimes at all because they are so powerful they sway the law in their favor, or so clever they discover an immoral opportunity for criminal enterprise before the legislators notice it. Such forms of criminality may be indistinguishable, at a distance, from lawful business; the criminal paragon of upper-class virtue, a face-man for Forbes.”
Crime
Criminals
White Collar Crime
White Collar Criminal
Fangirl
“Levi was thin and weedy, and his hair--well, his
hair
--but everything about him made Cath feel loose and immoral.”
Love
Levi Cath
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