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  1. A quotation from Wendell Berry

    However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

    Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
    Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

    More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

  2. A quotation from Wendell Berry

    However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

    Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
    Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

    More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

  3. A quotation from Wendell Berry

    However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

    Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
    Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

    More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

  4. A quotation from Wendell Berry

    However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

    Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
    Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

    More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

  5. A quotation from Wendell Berry

    However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

    Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
    Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

    More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

  6. Andrewism: *Can Anarchy Protect Us From Bad People?*

    "One of the most common questions asked of anarchists is how anarchy intends to deal with the “bad people" in a world without authority. In this video, we'll explore some answers!"

    youtube.com/watch?v=o8Btb1sGRK0

    #Anarchism #crime #justice #transformativeJustice #legal #illegal #philosophy #BadPeople #Authoritarianism

  7. Andrewism: *Can Anarchy Protect Us From Bad People?*

    "One of the most common questions asked of anarchists is how anarchy intends to deal with the “bad people" in a world without authority. In this video, we'll explore some answers!"

    youtube.com/watch?v=o8Btb1sGRK0

    #Anarchism #crime #justice #transformativeJustice #legal #illegal #philosophy #BadPeople #Authoritarianism

  8. Andrewism: *Can Anarchy Protect Us From Bad People?*

    "One of the most common questions asked of anarchists is how anarchy intends to deal with the “bad people" in a world without authority. In this video, we'll explore some answers!"

    youtube.com/watch?v=o8Btb1sGRK0

    #Anarchism #crime #justice #transformativeJustice #legal #illegal #philosophy #BadPeople #Authoritarianism

  9. Andrewism: *Can Anarchy Protect Us From Bad People?*

    "One of the most common questions asked of anarchists is how anarchy intends to deal with the “bad people" in a world without authority. In this video, we'll explore some answers!"

    youtube.com/watch?v=o8Btb1sGRK0

    #Anarchism #crime #justice #transformativeJustice #legal #illegal #philosophy #BadPeople #Authoritarianism

  10. Andrewism: *Can Anarchy Protect Us From Bad People?*

    "One of the most common questions asked of anarchists is how anarchy intends to deal with the “bad people" in a world without authority. In this video, we'll explore some answers!"

    youtube.com/watch?v=o8Btb1sGRK0

    #Anarchism #crime #justice #transformativeJustice #legal #illegal #philosophy #BadPeople #Authoritarianism

  11. A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane. They are in-sane, out of health, morally. Reason, which is food to sound minds, is not tolerated, still less assimilated, unless administered with the greatest caution; perhaps, not at all. Avoid collision with them, so far as you honorably can; keep your temper, if you can, — for one angry man is as good as another; restrain them from violence, promptly, completely, and with the least possible injury, just as in the case of maniacs, — and when you have got rid of them, or got them tied hand and foot so that they can do no mischief, sit down and contemplate them charitably, remembering that nine tenths of their perversity comes from outside influences, drunken ancestors, abuse in childhood, bad company, from which you have happily been preserved, and for some of which you, as a member of society, may be fractionally responsible.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
    Article (1860-08), “The Professor’s Story [Elsie Venner],” ch. 16 [The Professor], Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 34

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #anger #badpeople #crime #criminals #evil #immorality #insanity #irrationality #motivation #naturevsnurture #responsibility #rootcause #society #unreasoning

  12. 5yrs ago, photos app reminds me, we were at Point Lobos park, California.
    These three assholes off-trail, trampling sensitive plant life and potentially disturbing birds and seals.

    THE SIGNS APPLY TO EVERYONE
    Iirc I shouted at them, but I haven't always felt able to do so. I hate this entitlement, disregard for wild spaces you're privileged to be in, ignorance, harm. Grow tf up. People are the worst.

    #california #findYourPark #stateParks #humans #BadPeople #caughtInTheAct #stayOnTrails

  13. A quotation from Zinn

       An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
       And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

    Howard Zinn (1922-2010) American historian, academic, author, social activist
    Essay (2004-09-02), “The Optimism of Uncertainty,” The Nation

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/zinn-howard/35668/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #action #badpeople #endeavor #future #goodandevil #goodpeople #history #hope #humancondition #humanrights #humanity #inaction #inspiration #meme #optimism #pessimism #present #struggle #success #utopia #victory

  14. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Say to yourself first thing in the morning: I shall meet with people who are meddling, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, and unsociable. They are subject to these faults because of their ignorance of what is good and bad.
     
    [ἕωθεν προλέγειν ἑαυτῷ· συντεύξομαι περιέργῳ, ἀχαρίστῳ, ὑβριστῇ, δολερῷ, βασκάνῳ, ἀκοινωνήτῳ· πάντα ταῦτα συμβέβηκεν ἐκείνοις παρὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1) [tr. Gill (2013)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7455…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #badbehavior #badpeople #evil #good #goodandevil #ignorance #vice #marcusaurelius

  15. A quotation from Euripides:

    «
    It is not worth living,
    when we see bad men unjustly honored.
     
    [ου γαρ άξιον λεύσσειν φάος κακούς ορώντας εκδίκως τιμωμένους.]
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/euripides/65197/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #badpeople #evil #honors #injustice #life #success #wicked #worthwhile

  16. CW: The #LongTailPlot of #BadPeople & #TheirBadKarma 👀👀

    When #BadPeople complain about #karma and say 'wHy aRe yOu ThReAtEnInG mE?!' 😳 ☜ (↼_↼)

    #FunFact : I didn't threaten them.

    ╰( ・ ᗜ ・ )➝ This speaks a #LoT about the #BadKarma that #BadPeople have in their lives.

    Doesn't it?

    Psst. What an interesting response from the people who _know_ why they have #badkarma and are just being aggressive about their own issues.

  17. Marcus Aurelius gives us several solid guidelines for dealing with people who deliberately do the wrong things. Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode examining those in detail!

    soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/
    #Podcast #Philosophy #Stoicism #Marcus #Aurelius #Ethics #BadPeople #Life

  18. The last chapter of book 9 of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations contain a number of useful reflections about people doing wrong, and our own expectations. These can help us head off anger at people who do genuinely bad things

    youtu.be/sDHQFjZ9WDY
    #Stoicism #Video #Aurelius #Anger #Philosophy #Wrongdoing #BadPeople #Trust