Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times--- his plan is to kill us all, and if an innocent child dies in agony and a wicked man breathes his last at an advanced age in his sleep, who are we to call it injustice?
Valerie MartinTag: injustice god cynicism death religion grief
A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.
Eliezer YudkowskyTag: cynicism rationality rationalism
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
Terry PratchettTag: politics cynicism idealism good-and-evil vetinari
Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
A.J. LieblingTag: cynicism shame inexperience shamefaced
Ce sper eu e sa fac de ras lumea literara. Sa rad pe cat pot de netrebnicii astia lingusitori, adunati ca intr-un musuroi, care se pupa-n fund unul pe altul si isi ling ranile in timp ce, de fapt, isi pun bete roate reciproc.
Haruki MurakamiTag: cynicism hypocrisy brutal-truth literary-world
That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.
Sergei LukyanenkoTag: difficult cynicism faith indifference hard
The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.
Gore VidalTag: politics cynicism realism
Humanity is a monster you can never kill.
Kameron HurleyTag: cynicism
A thousand years from now nobody is
going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is
right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived.
Tag: future cynicism fate determination life-and-living altruism
Obviously, there’s no way of making money that doesn’t hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or a banker or a wealthy landowner isn’t generally required to take responsibility for the people he cheats, screws and starves; society couldn’t function if that were the case.
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