“Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.” KnowsUseTodayLife IsStruggleVictimYesterdayRepetitionEverlastingSouvenirs Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“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.” PeopleSeemsLife IsTurnsWishVictimCompetitionCriminalsOppressedOppressors Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970 Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970
“My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.” ThinkingEnoughLife IsExistenceQualityUltimateVictimMereDragVocationIrritants Author:Elvis Costello
“Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.” WantFeelsPersonsLife IsWishEmotionObjectsPrejudiceVictimReleaseUnhappinessIrrelevantSubjectiveDissatisfaction Author:Pearl S. Buck