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"The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity
neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings.
It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and
life."
Rabindranath Tagore
“The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are
secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of
the aggressive and pitiless minority, they don't dare to assert
themselves.”
Mark Twain
The Case of Carrie Buck
Nous devrions toujours nous souvenir de la leçon
que nous apprend l’affaire Buck : un petit nombre d’avocats
zélés peut avoir une influence sur la loi qui défie
à la foi la science et la pensée conventionnelle’.
Paul A. Lombardo, Three
Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
“I have studied with great interest the laws of several American states
concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all
probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock.”
Adolf Hitler
Übermenschen: The One Percent
"The essential characteristic of a good and healthy ruling elite,
however, is that it views itself not as a function of the monarchy or the
commonwealth, but as its very meaning and highest justification, and that it
therefore accepts with a good conscience the sacrifice of untold human beings
who, for its sake, must be reduced and lowered to incomplete human beings, to
slaves, to instruments.
Their fundamental belief simply has to be that society must not exist for
society's sake, but only as the foundation and scaffolding on which the best
type of being is able to raise itself to its higher
task and to a higher state of being..."
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as
long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or
kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility
unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct
that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential
justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social
incompatibility and nothing else."
George Bernard Shaw
“Of all the problems which will have to be faced in the future,
in my opinion, the most difficult will be those concerning the treatment of
the inferior races of mankind.”
Leonard Darwin
"On Wall Street he and a few others—how many?—three hundred,
four hundred, five hundred?—had become precisely that ... Masters of
the Universe."
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their
sport."
William Shakespeare, King Lear
"If you pour yourself out for the hungry, and satisfy the needs
of the afflicted, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your gloom
will become like the noon day sun."
Is 58:10
"Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through
ordinary things...
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to
see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it
would be good enough to live for their sake."
Garrison Keillor
Note: This marks the 5,000th post on this site.
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