#malignity — Public Fediverse posts
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MEDEA: Oh, what an evil power love has in people’s lives!
CREON: That would depend on circumstances, I imagine.
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: Φεῦ φεῦ, βροτοῖς ἔρωτες ὡς κακὸν μέγα.
ΚΡΈΩΝ: ὅπως ἄν, οἶμαι, καὶ παραστῶσιν τύχαι.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 330ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81069/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #blessing #circumstance #curse #fate #fortune #love #luck #malignity #evil
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MEDEA: Oh, what an evil power love has in people’s lives!
CREON: That would depend on circumstances, I imagine.
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: Φεῦ φεῦ, βροτοῖς ἔρωτες ὡς κακὸν μέγα.
ΚΡΈΩΝ: ὅπως ἄν, οἶμαι, καὶ παραστῶσιν τύχαι.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 330ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81069/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #blessing #circumstance #curse #fate #fortune #love #luck #malignity #evil
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MME. PERNELLE: The tongues of spite are busy night and noon.
And to their venom no man is immune.
[Les langues ont toujours du venin à répandre,
Et rien n’est ici-bas qui s’en puisse défendre.]Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 5, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/77070/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #defamation #gossip #illwill #libel #malice #malignity #poison #slander #spite #venom
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MME. PERNELLE: The tongues of spite are busy night and noon.
And to their venom no man is immune.
[Les langues ont toujours du venin à répandre,
Et rien n’est ici-bas qui s’en puisse défendre.]Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 5, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/77070/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #defamation #gossip #illwill #libel #malice #malignity #poison #slander #spite #venom
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MME. PERNELLE: The tongues of spite are busy night and noon.
And to their venom no man is immune.
[Les langues ont toujours du venin à répandre,
Et rien n’est ici-bas qui s’en puisse défendre.]Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 5, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/77070/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #defamation #gossip #illwill #libel #malice #malignity #poison #slander #spite #venom
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Incompetence Leavened With Malignity
The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.
By Eliot A. Cohen
There is a rule in #politics never to ascribe to #malignity what one can explain through #incompetence & #stupidity. This approach has become difficult to sustain in the case of the #Trump admin. But there is another possibility: Both explanations operate simultaneously.
#geopolitics #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/rubio-putin-trump-ukraine/681730/ -
Incompetence Leavened With Malignity
The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.
By Eliot A. Cohen
There is a rule in #politics never to ascribe to #malignity what one can explain through #incompetence & #stupidity. This approach has become difficult to sustain in the case of the #Trump admin. But there is another possibility: Both explanations operate simultaneously.
#geopolitics #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/rubio-putin-trump-ukraine/681730/ -
Incompetence Leavened With Malignity
The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.
By Eliot A. Cohen
There is a rule in #politics never to ascribe to #malignity what one can explain through #incompetence & #stupidity. This approach has become difficult to sustain in the case of the #Trump admin. But there is another possibility: Both explanations operate simultaneously.
#geopolitics #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/rubio-putin-trump-ukraine/681730/ -
Incompetence Leavened With Malignity
The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.
By Eliot A. Cohen
There is a rule in #politics never to ascribe to #malignity what one can explain through #incompetence & #stupidity. This approach has become difficult to sustain in the case of the #Trump admin. But there is another possibility: Both explanations operate simultaneously.
#geopolitics #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/rubio-putin-trump-ukraine/681730/ -
Incompetence Leavened With Malignity
The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.
By Eliot A. Cohen
There is a rule in #politics never to ascribe to #malignity what one can explain through #incompetence & #stupidity. This approach has become difficult to sustain in the case of the #Trump admin. But there is another possibility: Both explanations operate simultaneously.
#geopolitics #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/rubio-putin-trump-ukraine/681730/