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  1. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

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  2. set design by Jack Kirby for a Lord of Light film production that was never made.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_

    I read this book, it was really cool. Some spacemen used technology or magic to make themselves Hindu gods on another planet. What a bunch of dicks! It's been a long time since I read it but I think one of the spacemen came and shook everything up as Buddha ❤️

    #art #comic #penAndInk #hiContrast #vivid #jackKirby #lordOfLight #buddha #revolution #selflessness #love #compassion #cosmic #humanism #morality #ethics

  3. set design by Jack Kirby for a Lord of Light film production that was never made.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_

    I read this book, it was really cool. Some spacemen used technology or magic to make themselves Hindu gods on another planet. What a bunch of dicks! It's been a long time since I read it but I think one of the spacemen came and shook everything up as Buddha ❤️

    #art #comic #penAndInk #hiContrast #vivid #jackKirby #lordOfLight #buddha #revolution #selflessness #love #compassion #cosmic #humanism #morality #ethics

  4. set design by Jack Kirby for a Lord of Light film production that was never made.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_

    I read this book, it was really cool. Some spacemen used technology or magic to make themselves Hindu gods on another planet. What a bunch of dicks! It's been a long time since I read it but I think one of the spacemen came and shook everything up as Buddha ❤️

    #art #comic #penAndInk #hiContrast #vivid #jackKirby #lordOfLight #buddha #revolution #selflessness #love #compassion #cosmic #humanism #morality #ethics

  5. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    The taint hidden in selflessness is that selflessness is the only moral justification of ruthlessness.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 142 (1955)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/79964/

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