Society and the World

You think this cruel? take it for a rule,

I am his Highness’ dog at Kew;

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,

On all the line a sudden vengeance waits,

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale.

The glory that was Greece

For we are told that when a certain man was accusing both of them to him, he [Caesar] said that he had no fear of those fat and long-haired fellows, but rather of those pale and thin ones.

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

God is always doing geometry.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

But if we are guided by me we shall believe that the soul is immortal and capable of enduring all extremes of good and evil, and so we shall hold ever to the upward way and pursue righteousness with wisdom always and ever.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

And so with the objects of knowledge: these derive from the Good not only their power of being known, but their very being and reality; and Goodness is not the same thing as being, but even beyond being, surpassing it in dignity and power.

What I say is that ‘just’ or ‘right’ means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

What I say is that ‘just’ or ‘right’ means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

Can we devise one of those lies—the kind which crop up as the occasion demands, which we were talking about not so long ago—so that with a single noble lie we can indocrinate the rulers themselves, preferably, but at least the rest of the community?

Can we devise one of those lies—the kind which crop up as the occasion demands, which we were talking about not so long ago—so that with a single noble lie we can indocrinate the rulers themselves, preferably, but at least the rest of the community?

Is that which is holy loved by the gods because it is holy, or is it holy because it is loved by the gods?

This was the end, Echekrates, of our friend; a man of whom we may say that of all whom we met at that time he was the wisest and justest and best.

The woman is perfected

Every woman adores a Fascist,

Water is best. But gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms … The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.