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A quotation from John Quincy Adams
I cannot ask of Heaven success, even for my Country, in a Cause where she should be in the wrong — Fiat Justitia, pereat Coelum — My toast would be, may our Country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) US President (1825-29)
Letter (1816-08-01) to John AdamsMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-john-quincy/14…
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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one may reason all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84115/
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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one may reason all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84115/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #gorky #thegorkyincident #custom #law #morality #obedience #penalty #publicmorals #publicopinion #punishment #rationality #reason #rightandwrong #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition #transgression
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 38Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
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Thank goodness they had instructions. I was just about to clamber up! 🚽
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Thank goodness they had instructions. I was just about to clamber up! 🚽
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“How is it that half of America looks at Donald Trump and doesn’t find him morally repellent? He lies, cheats, steals, betrays, and behaves cruelly and corruptly, and more than 70 million Americans find him, at the very least, morally acceptable. Some even see him as heroic, admirable, and wonderful. What has brought us to this state of moral numbness?”
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“How is it that half of America looks at Donald Trump and doesn’t find him morally repellent? He lies, cheats, steals, betrays, and behaves cruelly and corruptly, and more than 70 million Americans find him, at the very least, morally acceptable. Some even see him as heroic, admirable, and wonderful. What has brought us to this state of moral numbness?”
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HECUBA: It the duty of a good man to do good everywhere and always to punish the evil men.
[ἙΚΆΒΗ: ἐσθλοῦ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς τῇ δίκῃ θ᾿ ὑπηρετεῖν
καὶ τοὺς κακοὺς δρᾶν πανταχοῦ κακῶς ἀεί.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 844ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Theodoridis (2007)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/76521/
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A quotation from Josh Billings
We are never nearer right than we am when we fear we are rong.
[We are never nearer right than we are when we fear we are wrong.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76476/
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I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, MassachusettsSourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #higherlaw #citizen #civicduty #humanity #law #morality #rightandwrong
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Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25+ hours about the 5-alarm fire we in the US are experiencing and most are focusing on him breaking a record. How “American.” Come on, get it together! It can be scary, but this is our time to go big. Learn from those who have gone before us…
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Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25+ hours about the 5-alarm fire we in the US are experiencing and most are focusing on him breaking a record. How “American.” Come on, get it together! It can be scary, but this is our time to go big. Learn from those who have gone before us…
#CoryBooker #USPol #USPolitics #RightAndWrong -
A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Attempt nothing, for which thou darest not pray to God.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 87 (1725)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
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What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity, — who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority. The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls, — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, MassachusettsSourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #citizenry #Constitution #democracy #higherlaw #law #policy #rightandwrong
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Controversial take. I have no sympathy for Mitch McConnell. McConnell is evil. He stood by and supported a corrupt president and enabled racist party members to take this country beyond return. McConnell had a choice. Right and wrong. And he chose wrong. You reap what you sow.
#MitchMcConnel #karma #rightandwrongJamie
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Controversial take. I have no sympathy for Mitch McConnell. McConnell is evil. He stood by and supported a corrupt president and enabled racist party members to take this country beyond return. McConnell had a choice. Right and wrong. And he chose wrong. You reap what you sow.
#MitchMcConnel #karma #rightandwrongJamie
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#Journal, Day 1215
Monday, 17 July 2023
(Day 77 of #WGAstrike)
(Day 04 of #SAGAFTRAstrike)#boringlife #bosch #halted
#wgastrong #sagaftrastrong
#drewcarey #rightandwrong -
#Journal, Day 1215
Monday, 17 July 2023
(Day 77 of #WGAstrike)
(Day 04 of #SAGAFTRAstrike)#boringlife #bosch #halted
#wgastrong #sagaftrastrong
#drewcarey #rightandwrong