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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #cycleofviolence #excuse #justification #violence

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1999), “The Failure of War,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81928/

#violence #quote #quotes #qotd #quotation #wendellberry

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-09 · 18:45 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #cycleofviolence #excuse #justification #violence

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1999), “The Failure of War,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81928/

#violence #quote #quotes #qotd #quotation #wendellberry

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-09 · 18:45 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #cycleofviolence #excuse #justification #violence

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1999), “The Failure of War,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81928/

#violence #quote #quotes #qotd #quotation #wendellberry

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-09 · 18:45 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #cycleofviolence #excuse #justification #violence

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1999), “The Failure of War,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81928/

#cycleofviolence #excuse #justification #wendellberry #quotation #qotd

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-09 · 18:45 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #cycleofviolence #excuse #justification #violence

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1999), “The Failure of War,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81928/

#violence #quote #quotes #qotd #quotation #wendellberry

ポイズン雷花 @[email protected] · 2026-02-09 · 01:09 UTC

GHOST PROPERTY　ПРИМАРНА ВЛАСНІСТЬ
汝、ゴミ制度を焼却せよ！
Спали систему сміття!

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=26960192

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#ＡＩ生成 #roof #whose #hell #like #give #damn #city #hypocrite #just #blind #eye #graveyard #memories #left #rot #die #scrap #paper #sneers #owner #unknown #someone #else #land #but #cheap #excuse #your #called #justice

#ai生成 #roof #whose #hell #like #give

ポイズン雷花 @[email protected] · 2026-02-07 · 20:44 UTC

GHOST PROPERTY　ПРИМАРНА ВЛАСНІСТЬ
汝、ゴミ制度を焼却せよ！
Спали систему сміття!

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n03418b09596f

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#ＡＩ生成 #roof #whose #hell #like #give #damn #city #hypocrite #just #blind #eye #graveyard #memories #left #rot #die #scrap #paper #sneers #owner #unknown #someone #else #land #but #cheap #excuse #your #called #justice

#ai生成 #roof #whose #hell #like #give

C. @[email protected] · 2026-01-28 · 20:03 UTC

A: Ketchup / catsup's sole raison d'être is to provide a socially-acceptable way for adults to add sugar to savoury foods.

B: No way! I just like the taste!

A: Ah, sorry. So you'll be switching to unsweetened ketchup, then?

B: ...

A: Ah.

#ketchup #catsup #sugar #savoury #excuse #sweet #unsweetened #DidntThinkSo

#ketchup #catsup #sugar #savoury #excuse #sweet

Vexatious Vegetable @[email protected] · 2026-01-15 · 06:01 UTC

"But I might lose the next #election" is a #lame #excuse to avoid doing the right thing.

The number of people who would have to #flip to completely #neuter the #BigotedOrangeFascist is small. They're just #stubborn #assholes.

#assholes #stubborn #bigotedorangefascist #neuter #flip #excuse

Alcea @[email protected] · 2025-12-25 · 20:00 UTC

#Excuse me #iBisPaint team but ..

:hacker_w: :hacker_h: :hacker_a: :hacker_t: ?

Are you trying to #deprecate #UTAU s now ?
#Swanamii would hate this ..

https://voisona.com/song/

So do I..

People don't want to sing anymore ?
#repost •acws #acws

#excuse #ibispaint #deprecate #utau #swanamii #repost

Alcea @[email protected] · 2025-12-25 · 20:00 UTC

#Excuse me #iBisPaint team but ..

:hacker_w: :hacker_h: :hacker_a: :hacker_t: ?

Are you trying to #deprecate #UTAU s now ?
#Swanamii would hate this ..

https://voisona.com/song/

So do I..

People don't want to sing anymore ?
#repost •acws #acws

#excuse #ibispaint #deprecate #utau #swanamii #repost

Alcea @[email protected] · 2025-12-25 · 20:00 UTC

#Excuse me #iBisPaint team but ..

:hacker_w: :hacker_h: :hacker_a: :hacker_t: ?

Are you trying to #deprecate #UTAU s now ?
#Swanamii would hate this ..

https://voisona.com/song/

So do I..

People don't want to sing anymore ?
#repost •acws #acws

#excuse #ibispaint #deprecate #utau #swanamii #repost

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi @[email protected] · 2025-12-24 · 20:32 UTC

Lest the Moon Blushes 月も赤らむほどに Part 2

#Wss366 #PIXIVCharitySanta

[Continued from previous post]

Before answering, Shishi took an object from a bag at her feet. "I would like to learn one more transformation. It's something that would make Ume happy."

“What is it? Oh, a book. Let me see it.”

"I found it in a bookstore. It’s from the Edo period,” Shishi explained. “Look.”

Maiyoi held the book up to the moonlight and ran her fingers across the cover. "It's faded. Wait, I have it! It's an etiquette guide. Whatever do you have in mind? Does Ume like strict mistresses or is it librarians?”

Shishi laughed. “Neither of those. I might like a strict mistress, but Ume wouldn’t. Let me do this. I want to surprise you both, you now and Ume Christmas morning. Is it okay if I learn to do possession tomorrow?”

“Oh, ho, ho. Do you think you can learn that in one night? But we can start tomorrow. I would be a fine #excuse of a teacher if I wouldn't help my student make her lover happy. Let's begin. Face the Big Dipper.” Maiyoi wrapped her arms around Shishi and slowly spun her to face the constellation. “But beware, lest you make me too jealous, though. Listen,”

          Lest the moon
          Glimpses pool ruffles
          Envies the wind

Shishi laughed and kissed Maiyoi’s cheek and replied,

          Ruffled pool
          A moon worshiper
          Yet wind embraces

"Such cruelty!" Maiyoi cried, laughing. "I should snatch the wind with my teeth, lest it steal the pool from me."

“Fear not. The moon will always be in my sky, even if the wind embraces me.”

"Now watch, Sensei," said Shishi, placing the book on her head.

"Pray and visualize what you want to become," Maiyoi instructed.

The change was slower this time, but when Shishi turned to face her teacher again, her face had changed to that of a young European woman, and her clothes…

“An Edo maid. So that’s Ume’s weakness,” Maiyoi cried, clapping.

“Maids and idols. She can be quite the otaku.”

Other Maiyoi stories - PIXIV
Other Maiyoi stories - AO3

#TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #Kitsune #Otherkin #WakaPoetry

#wss366 #pixivcharitysanta #excuse #tootfic #microfiction #nmfic

G Allen @[email protected] · 2025-12-24 · 18:59 UTC

#wss366 #excuse (1/1)

Peter and Chip were sitting together at the breakfast table giving Mindy a bit of a headache.

Peter burped, followed by "excuse me."

Then Chip burped a little longer, followed by "excuse me."

Then Peter burped longer still, "excuse me."

Both kids were snickering.

Mindy decided that this wasn't a battle she had energy for, so she picked up her coffee and went out to the parlor.

Peter said, "We should stop, she's actually mad."

#wss366 #excuse

Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️ @[email protected] · 2025-12-24 · 13:38 UTC

He looked at it, shocked. It was his wife's number.
He answered the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hi, honey!" It was her voice. "#Excuse me, if I woke you up. I just wanted to wish you a Happy…"
He hung up the phone.
"Fuckin' AI…" he grumbled. He might be pretty far gone, but not *that* far gone. (3/3) #wss366

#excuse #wss366

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-12-04 · 16:42 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #accomplishment #achievement #alibi #effort #excellence #excuse #failure #goals #justification #personaleffort #selfdefeating

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book, painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 181 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/29470/

#quotes #quote #achievement #goals #qotd #failure

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-12-04 · 16:42 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #accomplishment #achievement #alibi #effort #excellence #excuse #failure #goals #justification #personaleffort #selfdefeating

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book, painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 181 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/29470/

#quotes #quote #achievement #goals #qotd #failure

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-12-04 · 16:42 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #accomplishment #achievement #alibi #effort #excellence #excuse #failure #goals #justification #personaleffort #selfdefeating

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book, painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 181 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/29470/

#quotes #quote #achievement #goals #qotd #failure

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-12-04 · 16:42 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #accomplishment #achievement #alibi #effort #excellence #excuse #failure #goals #justification #personaleffort #selfdefeating

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book, painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 181 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/29470/

#selfdefeating #personaleffort #alibi #justification #erichoffer #excuse

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-11-07 · 05:00 UTC

#excuse : to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook

- French: excuse

- German: die Ausrede

- Italian: scusa

- Portuguese: desculpa

- Spanish: la excusa

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#excuse

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-10-29 · 13:43 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #resolution #determination #advancement #comfort #decision #decisionmaking #excuse #opportunism #progress #timidity

Many voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is the road ahead?” […] If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quotes #quote #progress #decision #opportunism #qotd

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-10-29 · 13:43 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #resolution #determination #advancement #comfort #decision #decisionmaking #excuse #opportunism #progress #timidity

Many voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is the road ahead?” […] If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quotes #quote #progress #decision #opportunism #qotd

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-10-29 · 13:43 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #resolution #determination #advancement #comfort #decision #decisionmaking #excuse #opportunism #progress #timidity

Many voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is the road ahead?” […] If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quotes #quote #progress #decision #opportunism #qotd

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-10-29 · 13:43 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #resolution #determination #advancement #comfort #decision #decisionmaking #excuse #opportunism #progress #timidity

Many voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is the road ahead?” […] If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#advancement #franklindelanoroosevelt #excuse #timidity #franklindroosevelt #decisionmaking

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-10-29 · 13:43 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #resolution #determination #advancement #comfort #decision #decisionmaking #excuse #opportunism #progress #timidity

Many voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is the road ahead?” […] If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.

More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quotes #quote #progress #decision #opportunism #qotd

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-10-19 · 18:35 UTC

A quotation from William Pitt

It is true, the bill is said to be founded on necessity; but what is this? Is it not necessity, which has always been the plea of every illegal exertion of power, or exercise of oppression? Is not necessity the pretence of every usurpation? Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt (1759-1806) British Prime Minister (1804-06) [William Pitt the Younger]
Speech (1793-11-18), House of Commons, London

More info about this quote: wist.info/pitt-william/3164/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williampitt #control #emergency #excuse #government #imperative #justification #necessity #need #oppression #power #pretense #security #servility #tyranny

#quotes #quote #security #power #government #tyranny

Nando161 @[email protected] · 2025-10-08 · 15:55 UTC

#Control the #poor, #excuse the #rich.

#control #poor #excuse #rich

Nando161 @[email protected] · 2025-10-05 · 02:16 UTC

Every time someone #claims it’ll stop at #porn #remind them it wont. #Child safety is the #excuse, there is no stopping point.

#claims #porn #remind #child #excuse

Nae King! Nae quin! Nae Laird! @[email protected] · 2025-09-12 · 11:41 UTC

@Pamela1960 I wouldn't suggest that the (Trumpist) Republicans may be have some fingers in this pie,but

As the online (Encyclopedia) Britannica article says
"Reichstag fire, burning of the Reichstag (parliament) building in Berlin on the night of February 27, 1933, a key event the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and widely believed to have been contrived by the newly formed Nazi government itself to turn public opinion against its opponents and to assume emergency powers."

britannica.com/event/Reichstag…

As the BBC says
"The Reichstag fire was so beneficial to the Nazis that it has been suggested they started it themselves."

bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zpkn…

#ReichstagFire
#Nazi
#Excuse
#GOP
#RightwingTactics

#gop #nazi #excuse #reichstagfire #rightwingtactics

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-09-10 · 17:39 UTC

A quotation from George Carlin

Another nice thing about getting old is you can leave any social event early just by saying you’re tired.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Show (2008-03-01), It’s Bad for Ya, "Old Fuck," Wells Fargo Center, Santa Rosa, California (HBO)

More info about this quote: wist.info/carlin-george/78941/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgecarlin #elder #excuse #fatigue #gettired #gettingold #growingold #oldage #socialevent #socializing

#quotes #quote #qotd #oldage #gettingold #quotation

Nando161 @[email protected] · 2025-09-04 · 18:31 UTC

#Control the #poor, #excuse the #rich.

#control #poor #excuse #rich

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-07-16 · 16:05 UTC

A quotation from Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Whatever you think you have to do is simply what you want to do.

[Was Du zu müssen glaubst, ist das, was Du willst.]

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 60 (1880) [tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]

Sourcing, notes, other translation: wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aphorism #compulsion #desire #duty #justification #moralduty #must #obligation #preference #requirement #selfrighteousness #volition #will #wishing #excuse

#quotes #quote #selfrighteousness #qotd #duty #desire

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-07-07 · 19:30 UTC

A quotation from Henry Aldrich

If all be true that I do think,
There are five reasons we should drink:
Good wine, a friend, because I’m dry,
Or least I should be by and by,
Or any other reason why.

Henry Aldrich (1647-1710) English academic, theologian, philosopher, architect, composer
“Five Reasons for Drinking” (1689)

Sourcing, extensive notes: wist.info/aldrich-henry/18810/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alcohol #drinking #excuse #friendship #hospitality #taste #thirst #wine

#quotes #quote #wine #friendship #qotd #hospitality

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-07-01 · 16:13 UTC

A quotation from Euripides

HECUBA:      The clear actions of a man,
   Agamemnon, should speak louder than any words.
   good words should get their goodness from our lives
   and nowhere else; the evil we do should show,
   a rottenness that festers in our speech
   and what we say, in capable of being glozed
   with a film of pretty words.
                    There are men, I know,
   sophists who make a science of persuasion,
   glozing evil with the slick of loveliness;
   but in the end a speciousness will show.
   The imposters are punished; not one escapes
   his death.

[ἙΚΆΒΗ: Ἀγάμεμνον, ἀνθρώποισιν οὐκ ἐχρῆν ποτε
   τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν γλῶσσαν ἰσχύειν πλέον:
   ἀλλ᾽, εἴτε χρήστ᾽ ἔδρασε, χρήστ᾽ ἔδει λέγειν,
   εἴτ᾽ αὖ πονηρά, τοὺς λόγους εἶναι σαθρούς,
   καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι τἄδικ᾽ εὖ λέγειν ποτέ.
   σοφοὶ μὲν οὖν εἰσ᾽ οἱ τάδ᾽ ἠκριβωκότες,
   ἀλλ᾽ οὐ δύνανται διὰ τέλους εἶναι σοφοί,
   κακῶς δ᾽ ἀπώλοντ᾽: οὔτις ἐξήλυξέ πω.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 1186ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/77262/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #hecuba #actions #evil #excuse #glibness #persuasion #propaganda #rationale #smoothtalker #sophistry #wordsanddeeds

#quotes #quote #propaganda #evil #qotd #persuasion

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-06-12 · 20:21 UTC