“My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.” SufferingPayKnowingLuckMissionsUnhappyIgnorantUnhappinessUnconsciousness Book:The Trouble with Being Born Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.” PeopleConsciousnessClassKnowingMilitaryIdentityLuckSoldierTerrorismStrokesCivilians Book:Pure war Source: Pure war
“Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.” ShouldKnowingSuccessfulImportanceLuckInvestingPatternsFirmConsistentComparisonSuspiciousRandomnessMirages Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.” Has BeensUseSeemsActionFormMoralKnowingProgressLuckSakeVariousImprovementSmallestDiscomfortAttending Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward