Random Blips

May 19

Dresden, 1945

Feb 14

“The Bible is the greatest game of ‘Telephone’ in history. Jesus said, ‘Love your enemies,’ Rick Santorum heard, ‘Nuke Iran.’”

Nov 22

“In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.” Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

Nov 16

Wherever humans go, they bring destruction with them.

Aug 22

kristiismystified:

Still love this. As true today as ever. I’ve tried the latter….doesn’t work.

Jul 29

My conspiracy theory mind is going crazy.

Jun 9

“If the mental prowess of kings and commanders were as effective in peace as in war, human affairs would be conducted more uniformly and consistently, and you would not see things swept along in different directions and everything changing and confused.” -Sallust from “Catiline’s War.”

I’ve posted this before, but I love it so much i’m posting it again.

“They itemized what the savagery of war was like, what befell the conquered: maidens and boys seized, children wrenched from their parents’ embrace, the mothers of families enduring whatever their conquerers pleased, shrines and homes despoiled, slaughter and burning, and, finally, everywhere filled with arms, corpses, gore and grief.” -Sallust “Catiline’s War.