Sunday, October 4, 2026

Pick Me Vegans & Ex Vegans

Few people are capable of expressing with
equanimity opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of
forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein


We are haunted by the horror of what we do
to animals, but we are equally haunted by
the knowledge of how unhaunted others are.

J.M. Coetzee


Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.

AnaΓ―s Nin


If you don't stick to your values when
they're being tested, they're not values:
they're hobbies.

Jon Stewart


The hottest places in hell are reserved for
those who, in times of great moral crisis,
maintain their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri


People's opinions are mainly designed to make
them feel comfortable; truth, for most people,
is a secondary consideration.

Bertrand Russell


Cowards can never be moral.
Mahatma Gandhi


The superior man thinks of virtue;
the common man thinks of comfort.

Confucius


When you see a good man, try to emulate
his example, and when you see a bad man,
search yourself for his faults.

Confucius


All rivers and some people are crooked because
they follow the path of least resistence.

Napoleon Hill


To be yourself in a world that is constantly
trying to make you something else is
the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


We only become what we are by the radical
and deep-seated refusal of that which
others have made of us.

Jean Paul Sartre


The individual has always had to struggle
to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often,
and sometimes frightened. But no price
is too high to pay for the privilege
of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Laws of Power

The measure of a man is 
what he does with power.

Plato


Most people abuse power.
They use power to dominate others.
They use power to destroy others.
Ultimately, when you do this, you lose it.

Frederick Lenz


The limits of tyrants are prescribed by
the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass


Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us.
He is a voice inside. Look for your devil
in yourself, not in the others.
Don't forget that the one
who knows his devil, knows his God.

Shams Tabrizi


People seem good while they are oppressed,
but they only wish to become oppressors in
their turn: life is nothing but a competition
to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell



The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil
committed by nobodies, that is, by
human beings who refuse to be persons.

Hannah Arendt


Power is never the property of an individual;
it belongs to a group and remains in existence
only so long as the group keeps together.

Hannah Arendt


The individual has always had to struggle
to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often,
and sometimes frightened. But no price
is too high to pay for the privilege
of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling



Competition is the law of the jungle,
but cooperation is the law of civilization.

Peter Kropotkin