“Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.” HumansLawChoicesForceBreakEffectsCrimeFaultsExcuseRefugeBreak ThroughFrailtyHuman Frailties Author:Blaise Pascal
“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.” PeopleWorldBelieveKindChildrenTwoReasonChoicesFatherPoorBreakNeededLetting GoDesperateSheepChild Of GodNeeded Love Book:Far North Source: Far North
“Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.” IfsThinkingStatesLastsChoicesEffortBreakDemocracyViolenceCitizensActivityEconomicsMajorityViolentResistanceOppressionMinoritiesMachineryResorts Book:The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism
“There is a huge set of consequences that start stacking up as you approach the end-game. And even in terms of the ending itself, it continues to break down to some very large decisions. So it's not like a ****c game ending where everything is linear and you make a choice between a few things - it really does layer in many, many different choices, up to the final moments, where it's going to be different for everyone who plays it.” DoeDifferentEndsPlayMomentsChoicesGamesTermDecisionBreakHugeApproachConsequenceFinalsLayersBreaking DownLinearDifferent ChoicesStacking Author:Ray Muzyka
“We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.” IfsWarStatesProblemTodayTogetherChoicesReligiousBreakFailingConflictConsequenceIndependenceIraqEnormousDramaticCivil WarWorking TogetherAlsProvincesBreak OutKurds Author:Zalmay Khalilzad