#immorality — Public Fediverse posts
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#LeMonde – #DonaldTrump s’enfonce dans le #népotisme, entre #immunité #fiscale et #compensations pour ses #partisans Ok, mais Pourquoi "s'enfonce" , on en était déjà là depuis longtemps .. 🤦🏼♂️ #Limitless in #immorality www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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#LeMonde – #DonaldTrump s’enfonce dans le #népotisme, entre #immunité #fiscale et #compensations pour ses #partisans Ok, mais Pourquoi "s'enfonce" , on en était déjà là depuis longtemps .. 🤦🏼♂️ #Limitless in #immorality www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Donald Trump s’enfonce dans le... -
#LeMonde – #DonaldTrump s’enfonce dans le #népotisme, entre #immunité #fiscale et #compensations pour ses #partisans
Ok, mais Pourquoi "s'enfonce" , on en était déjà là depuis longtemps .. 🤦🏼♂️
#Limitless in #immorality -
#LeMonde – #DonaldTrump s’enfonce dans le #népotisme, entre #immunité #fiscale et #compensations pour ses #partisans
Ok, mais Pourquoi "s'enfonce" , on en était déjà là depuis longtemps .. 🤦🏼♂️
#Limitless in #immorality -
#LeMonde – #DonaldTrump s’enfonce dans le #népotisme, entre #immunité #fiscale et #compensations pour ses #partisans
Ok, mais Pourquoi "s'enfonce" , on en était déjà là depuis longtemps .. 🤦🏼♂️
#Limitless in #immorality -
#LeMonde – #DonaldTrump s’enfonce dans le #népotisme, entre #immunité #fiscale et #compensations pour ses #partisans
Ok, mais Pourquoi "s'enfonce" , on en était déjà là depuis longtemps .. 🤦🏼♂️
#Limitless in #immorality -
#LeMonde – #DonaldTrump s’enfonce dans le #népotisme, entre #immunité #fiscale et #compensations pour ses #partisans
Ok, mais Pourquoi "s'enfonce" , on en était déjà là depuis longtemps .. 🤦🏼♂️
#Limitless in #immorality -
A quotation from Hannah Arendt
For the propaganda of totalitarian movements which precede and accompany totalitarian regimes is invariably as frank as it is mendacious, and would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones. The Nazis were “convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,” Bolshevik assurances inside and outside Russia that they do not recognize ordinary moral standards have become a mainstay of Communist propaganda, and experience has proven time and again that the propaganda value of evil deeds and general contempt for moral standards is independent of mere self-interest, supposedly the most powerful psychological factor in politics.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41493/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #amorality #attractiveness #boasting #bragging #brazenness #bullies #contempt #crime #evil #evildoers #immorality #moralstandards #morality #propaganda #seduction #seductiveness #shamelessness #totalitarianism
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
For the propaganda of totalitarian movements which precede and accompany totalitarian regimes is invariably as frank as it is mendacious, and would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones. The Nazis were “convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,” Bolshevik assurances inside and outside Russia that they do not recognize ordinary moral standards have become a mainstay of Communist propaganda, and experience has proven time and again that the propaganda value of evil deeds and general contempt for moral standards is independent of mere self-interest, supposedly the most powerful psychological factor in politics.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41493/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #amorality #attractiveness #boasting #bragging #brazenness #bullies #contempt #crime #evil #evildoers #immorality #moralstandards #morality #propaganda #seduction #seductiveness #shamelessness #totalitarianism
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
For the propaganda of totalitarian movements which precede and accompany totalitarian regimes is invariably as frank as it is mendacious, and would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones. The Nazis were “convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,” Bolshevik assurances inside and outside Russia that they do not recognize ordinary moral standards have become a mainstay of Communist propaganda, and experience has proven time and again that the propaganda value of evil deeds and general contempt for moral standards is independent of mere self-interest, supposedly the most powerful psychological factor in politics.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41493/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #amorality #attractiveness #boasting #bragging #brazenness #bullies #contempt #crime #evil #evildoers #immorality #moralstandards #morality #propaganda #seduction #seductiveness #shamelessness #totalitarianism
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
For the propaganda of totalitarian movements which precede and accompany totalitarian regimes is invariably as frank as it is mendacious, and would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones. The Nazis were “convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,” Bolshevik assurances inside and outside Russia that they do not recognize ordinary moral standards have become a mainstay of Communist propaganda, and experience has proven time and again that the propaganda value of evil deeds and general contempt for moral standards is independent of mere self-interest, supposedly the most powerful psychological factor in politics.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41493/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #amorality #attractiveness #boasting #bragging #brazenness #bullies #contempt #crime #evil #evildoers #immorality #moralstandards #morality #propaganda #seduction #seductiveness #shamelessness #totalitarianism
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"JD Vance, Who Converted to Catholicism as an Adult, Advises Pope Leo to ‘Stick to Matters of Morality’"
You.... fucking... turd!
The Pope **IS** sticking to matters of morality. EVERY DAMN THING YOU DO IS IMMORAL!
The Pope is warning you, but you're putting your fingers into your ears, and going "lalalalallalalalalallala, can't hear you!"
https://people.com/jd-vance-advises-pope-leo-to-stick-to-matters-of-morality-11949214
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"JD Vance, Who Converted to Catholicism as an Adult, Advises Pope Leo to ‘Stick to Matters of Morality’"
You.... fucking... turd!
The Pope **IS** sticking to matters of morality. EVERY DAMN THING YOU DO IS IMMORAL!
The Pope is warning you, but you're putting your fingers into your ears, and going "lalalalallalalalalallala, can't hear you!"
https://people.com/jd-vance-advises-pope-leo-to-stick-to-matters-of-morality-11949214
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"JD Vance, Who Converted to Catholicism as an Adult, Advises Pope Leo to ‘Stick to Matters of Morality’"
You.... fucking... turd!
The Pope **IS** sticking to matters of morality. EVERY DAMN THING YOU DO IS IMMORAL!
The Pope is warning you, but you're putting your fingers into your ears, and going "lalalalallalalalalallala, can't hear you!"
https://people.com/jd-vance-advises-pope-leo-to-stick-to-matters-of-morality-11949214
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"JD Vance, Who Converted to Catholicism as an Adult, Advises Pope Leo to ‘Stick to Matters of Morality’"
You.... fucking... turd!
The Pope **IS** sticking to matters of morality. EVERY DAMN THING YOU DO IS IMMORAL!
The Pope is warning you, but you're putting your fingers into your ears, and going "lalalalallalalalalallala, can't hear you!"
https://people.com/jd-vance-advises-pope-leo-to-stick-to-matters-of-morality-11949214
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HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
May violate at last all that men hold
Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
Of progress; innocence was never seen
To sink at once into the lowest depths
Of guilt.
[HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice
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HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
May violate at last all that men hold
Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
Of progress; innocence was never seen
To sink at once into the lowest depths
Of guilt.
[HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice
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HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
May violate at last all that men hold
Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
Of progress; innocence was never seen
To sink at once into the lowest depths
Of guilt.
[HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice
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HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
May violate at last all that men hold
Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
Of progress; innocence was never seen
To sink at once into the lowest depths
Of guilt.
[HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice
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HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
May violate at last all that men hold
Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
Of progress; innocence was never seen
To sink at once into the lowest depths
Of guilt.
[HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
On Revolution, ch. 2, sec. 5 (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/5732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #corruption #criminal #evil #hypocrisy #hypocrite #immorality #integrity #vice
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There's been so many, here's just 10 of Trump's more recent scams as President of the United States to make himself an even richer billionaire on the taxpayer's dime.
▶️ You may not remember these old Trump grifts - Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/28/2354297/-You-may-not-remember-these-old-Trump-grifts
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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
We may make mistakes — but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1945-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #fdr #franklindelanoroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #error #fear #immorality #imperfection #mistake #principles #reluctance #vice #evil
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The UK and Denmark are so poor, so immoral, so without humanity, so uncivilised that they will steal the last belongings of refugees. What sad, pathetic countries. How embarrassed must their people be?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/refugees-jewellery-asylum-home-office
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani [enemy of humanity], commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Epilogue (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42625/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #clearconscience #commonman #crimesagainsthumanity #criminal #enemy #evil #Holocaust #ignorance #immorality #naivete #normalcy #normality #responsibility #warcrime #wrongdoing
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani [enemy of humanity], commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Epilogue (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42625/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #clearconscience #commonman #crimesagainsthumanity #criminal #enemy #evil #Holocaust #ignorance #immorality #naivete #normalcy #normality #responsibility #warcrime #wrongdoing
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani [enemy of humanity], commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Epilogue (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42625/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #clearconscience #commonman #crimesagainsthumanity #criminal #enemy #evil #Holocaust #ignorance #immorality #naivete #normalcy #normality #responsibility #warcrime #wrongdoing
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani [enemy of humanity], commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Epilogue (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42625/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #clearconscience #commonman #crimesagainsthumanity #criminal #enemy #evil #Holocaust #ignorance #immorality #naivete #normalcy #normality #responsibility #warcrime #wrongdoing
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani [enemy of humanity], commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Epilogue (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42625/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #clearconscience #commonman #crimesagainsthumanity #criminal #enemy #evil #Holocaust #ignorance #immorality #naivete #normalcy #normality #responsibility #warcrime #wrongdoing
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 457 (1820)More info about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ccolton #change #advancement #badperson #character #corruption #degradation #evil #good #goodperson #immorality #improvement #progress #selfimprovement #time #vice #virtue
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 457 (1820)More info about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ccolton #change #advancement #badperson #character #corruption #degradation #evil #good #goodperson #immorality #improvement #progress #selfimprovement #time #vice #virtue
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 457 (1820)More info about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ccolton #change #advancement #badperson #character #corruption #degradation #evil #good #goodperson #immorality #improvement #progress #selfimprovement #time #vice #virtue
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 457 (1820)More info about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ccolton #change #advancement #badperson #character #corruption #degradation #evil #good #goodperson #immorality #improvement #progress #selfimprovement #time #vice #virtue
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 457 (1820)More info about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ccolton #change #advancement #badperson #character #corruption #degradation #evil #good #goodperson #immorality #improvement #progress #selfimprovement #time #vice #virtue
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An #internet #blackout hit #Afghanistan Monday, with local media reporting a potential nationwide cut of fiber-optic services as part of a #Taliban *#morality* crackdown.
It’s the first time Afghanistan has experienced a shutdown of this kind since the Taliban seized power in Aug 2021.
Earlier this month, several provinces lost their fiber-optic connections after Taliban leader Hibatullah #Akhundzada issued a decree banning the service to prevent *#immorality*.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-internet-crackdown-dfdda5c1ef1d29124db4649414584c6e
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
In the discussion of these matters, and especially in the general moral denunciation of the Nazi crimes, it is almost always overlooked that the true moral issue did not arise with the behavior of the Nazis but of those who only “coordinated” themselves and did not act out of conviction. It is not too difficult to see and even to understand how someone may decide “to prove a villain” and, given the opportunity, to try out a reversal of the Decalogue, starting with the command: “Thou shalt kill” and ending with a precept: “Thou shalt lie.”
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Lecture (1965-02-10), “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” Lecture 1, New School for Social Research, New York CityMore info about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/79238/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #complicity #collaboration #crime #crimesagainsthumanity #Holocaust #immorality #Nazis #villain
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At any rate to me it seems clearer every day that the moral problem of our age is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life, with the universal striving after individual economic security as the prime object of endeavour, with the social approbation of money as the measure of constructive success, and with the social appeal to the hoarding instinct as the foundation of the necessary provision for the family and for the future.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
Essays in Persuasion, Part 4 “Politics,” ch. 1, sec. 2 (1931)More info about this quote: wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #keynes #johnmaynardkeynes #avarice #economicsecurity #greed #hoarding #immorality #money #profit #wealth #success
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At any rate to me it seems clearer every day that the moral problem of our age is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life, with the universal striving after individual economic security as the prime object of endeavour, with the social approbation of money as the measure of constructive success, and with the social appeal to the hoarding instinct as the foundation of the necessary provision for the family and for the future.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
Essays in Persuasion, Part 4 “Politics,” ch. 1, sec. 2 (1931)More info about this quote: wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #keynes #johnmaynardkeynes #avarice #economicsecurity #greed #hoarding #immorality #money #profit #wealth #success
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At any rate to me it seems clearer every day that the moral problem of our age is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life, with the universal striving after individual economic security as the prime object of endeavour, with the social approbation of money as the measure of constructive success, and with the social appeal to the hoarding instinct as the foundation of the necessary provision for the family and for the future.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
Essays in Persuasion, Part 4 “Politics,” ch. 1, sec. 2 (1931)More info about this quote: wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #keynes #johnmaynardkeynes #avarice #economicsecurity #greed #hoarding #immorality #money #profit #wealth #success
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At any rate to me it seems clearer every day that the moral problem of our age is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life, with the universal striving after individual economic security as the prime object of endeavour, with the social approbation of money as the measure of constructive success, and with the social appeal to the hoarding instinct as the foundation of the necessary provision for the family and for the future.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
Essays in Persuasion, Part 4 “Politics,” ch. 1, sec. 2 (1931)More info about this quote: wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/…
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At any rate to me it seems clearer every day that the moral problem of our age is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life, with the universal striving after individual economic security as the prime object of endeavour, with the social approbation of money as the measure of constructive success, and with the social appeal to the hoarding instinct as the foundation of the necessary provision for the family and for the future.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
Essays in Persuasion, Part 4 “Politics,” ch. 1, sec. 2 (1931)More info about this quote: wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/…
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Per #WAPO
A new perspective on the Evil Prince Stephen Miller is underway, following raw discussions with DC co-workers in The Post.
Miller frequently frames Trump’s approach to crime-fighting as a moral and spiritual war against those who oppose him.
“I would say to the mayors of all these Democrat cities, like Chicago, what you are doing to your own citizens is evil.
You should praise God every day that President Trump is in the White House.” -
Virtue begins by shunning vice; wisdom
By shunning folly.
[Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima
stultitia caruisse.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1, l. 41ff (1.1.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14188/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avoidance #folly #foolishness #immorality #negative #sin #stupidity #vice #virtue #wisdom
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Virtue begins by shunning vice; wisdom
By shunning folly.
[Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima
stultitia caruisse.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1, l. 41ff (1.1.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14188/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avoidance #folly #foolishness #immorality #negative #sin #stupidity #vice #virtue #wisdom
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Virtue begins by shunning vice; wisdom
By shunning folly.
[Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima
stultitia caruisse.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1, l. 41ff (1.1.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14188/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avoidance #folly #foolishness #immorality #negative #sin #stupidity #vice #virtue #wisdom
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Virtue begins by shunning vice; wisdom
By shunning folly.
[Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima
stultitia caruisse.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1, l. 41ff (1.1.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14188/
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A quotation from Herbert Hoover
The duty of public men in this Republic is to lead in standards of integrity — both in mind and money.
Dishonor in public life has a double poison. When people are dishonorable in private business, they injure only those with whom they deal or their own chances in the next world. But when there is a lack of honor in Government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Some folks seem to think these are necessary evils in a free government. Or that it is smart politics. Those are deadly sleeping pills. No public man can be just a little crooked.Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1951-08-30), “Concerning Honor in Public Life,” Iowa Centennial Celebration, Des Moines, Iowa (radio broadcast)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoover-herbert/18705…
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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. 34Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…
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In #USA today
we can NO longer talk about choosing between #Democrat or #'Repubblican' (MAGAs)
The choice is between #Ethics, #Morals, #Decency #Rules of Laws
and
#racism, #cruelty, #chaos, #immorality #perversion of the #MAGAGOP
Choosing between "the #State" and "Who steals the most" takes everything"
Choosing between #Institutions that help and protect #Citizens
or 'every man for himself'.
Choosing between #Democracy #freedom #civilization... #Decency
or #Fascism. -
Although fear was turning you into a good citizen, fear is only in the short term a teacher of duty; and that unscrupulousness of yours, which never deserts you so long as you are not afraid, has turned you into a scoundrel.
[Quamquam bonum te timor faciebat, non diuturnus magister officii, improbum fecit ea, quae, dum timor abest, a te non discedit, audacia.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 36 / sec. 90 (2.36/2.90) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #arrogance #audacity #decency #duty #fear #loyalty #principles #restraint #scoundrel #scruples #shamelessness #unscrupulousness #immorality