A coward cannot be measured by his/her conscientious objection to war.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~ Harper Lee
A coward cannot be measured by his/her conscientious objection to war.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~ Harper Lee
"When I go to heaven, I'm going to ask to see the upstairs."
The quote is from the label on Retox's YPLL vinyl, although I think it's written on the CD as well, it's just so evil I love it.
Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink the wild air ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We could have gone to Vietnam, pave all the roads, install parking meters all over the place, and be back home for Christmas. ~ Ronald Reagan
Mr. Gorbochof, tear down that wall. ~ Ronald Reagan
We will not allow Saddam to annex Kuwait. This is not a threat. This is the way it's going to be. ~ Bush
Regarding the invasion of Iraq.
Our cause is just. Our cause is moral. Our cause is right. ~ Bush
Regarding the Berlin wall.
If I had told you that the wall of Berlin was going to be down a month before it happened, you would have refused to believe it. Then, from one day to the next, it had disappeared. ~ Salman Rushdie
My favorite quote is: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life" by Confucius . Seriously this quote always hover around my mind!
That's assuming that in the days of Confucius you would be allowed to do the job in actuality. That's why it hovers. But there were too many fortune cookies involved. ~ C A CafoliniOriginally Posted by Premm
Understanding the meaning of morals requires the following thoughts.
We invented the word immorality to hide from ourselves a clear understanding of morals. Naturally we then think of bad morals as immoral. But morals are a gift of pre-eminence, a-priori. This gift lets us judge what's convenient or inconvenient to us, that is, good or bad morals. You may consider this a gift of God or not. I prefer to look at it that way, but it is irrelevant in the actual context. Bad morals are the ones of a criminal. They are simply not convenient morals. Good morals are the ones of a law-abiding citizen. They are simply convenient morals. And in this regard, if you grasp this, the word "immorality" in contrast to "morality" loses the feigned meaning and disappears as such. Also in knowing this, any "amorality" becomes impossible, for a moral judgment is always imperative in behavior calls. Hope you get this. It's the way it ist, ex-ist, and makes sense at once. ~ C A Cafolini
It's a very long ways before any thing can get to be philosophical. People will never get there before they get any thing there is to get. Don't waste your effort. ~ C A Cafolini
Excellent definition of the psychopath in the Ariel Castro trial. He knows he's sick. He knows right from wrong and still thinks he was right and free to choose. At the same time he's capable of asking the victims and even God to forgive him because he's sick and impulsive, but then claiming that he's not a monster and that what happened was consensual. This is very different than the position of the mentally ill, who commits the crime based on moral grounds and thinks he/she is absolutely right, without any attention to right or wrong, because he/she is absolutely right.
All mental cases are very credible. What's incredible is what makes sense. Why would you need to believe that? But unfortunately, all mental cases make sense to the ill. ~ C A Cafolini
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A few statistical facts and consequences.
23% of Mexicans are openly racist toward blacks. Another high percentage say to be neutral. But this neutrality only helps the racist and should be called indifference. A very small percent of Mexicans are openly against racism.
So, a black child runs home persecuted by a neighborhood watchman. The child is unarmed, yelling for help when he arrives to his doorsteps. His mother comes out when Zimmerman shoots him in the chest from two or three feet. The child runs away and collapses. His mother gets to him as he dies in her arms. Most likely there will be a civil suit against Zimmerman, as it should be. The charge should be Negligent Manslaughter. ~ C A Cafolini
One of my favourite quotes is "Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop".
I don't know where it comes from, but it definitely is very true. I'm also into photography, so maybe that's why I like it so much
To become a trusted person, one must have principles. But the problem is to find principles that make sense. Lacking that, people develop convictions which they call ethics, and try to force them on other people. Impossible. ~ C A Cafolini
A human is known, not by his compassion for his friends, but by his compassion for his enemies. Dan Brown
( Don`t know how much of that holds weight in today's world but has a nice ring to it, though )
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