#con

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Auschwitz?! That is a name I had heard before. There is not much time for thinking. It had been raining here not so long ago. The asphalt of the wet, wide platform reflects the light of the high lighting-poles. The row of armed SS men competes in howling with their dogs they hold on leashes


Azriel Feuerstein


#azriel-feuerstein #holocaust #the-tumbler #men

In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men. It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain.


Toba Beta


#invisible-hand #puppeteer #men

Alric! Stop it!" Pickering snapped at him. "You mustn't let the men see you crying!" Fury flared in Alric, and he spun on the count. "No? No? Look at them! They are dying for me. They are dying on my order! I say they do have a right to see their king! They all have a right to see their king!" Alric wiped the tears from his cheeks and gathered his reins. "I'm tired of this. I'm tired of having my face put in the dirt! I won't stand it. I'm tired of being helpless. That's my city, built by my ancestors! If my people chose to fight, then, by Maribor, I want them to know it's me they fight!" The prince put on his helm, drew his father's large sword and spurred his horse forward, not at the trench but at the castle gate itself.


Michael J. Sullivan


#men

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be


Joseph Story


#men

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.


Criss Jami


#conditional #conditional-love #conflict #conscience #defense

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#consequences #evil #evil-men #faust #faust-legend

If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#control-of-men #god #legislator #men

His effect on men is one of interest and curiosity, not of admiration and loyalty. His power is the power of gifts, not character. Men watch him, but do not follow him.


William Manchester


#men

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.


Herman Melville


#beasts #human-condition #humanity #men #men

In a revolutionary epoch, sometimes men taste every novelty, sicken of them all, and return to ancient principles so long disused that they seem refreshingly hearty when they are rediscovered.


Russell Kirk


#men