"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
- H. L. Mencken
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
"I was a God, Valeria."
"And?"
"And I found it....... beneath me."
"She learned that human beings had long been afraid that someone like her would come to exist, in all the stories she was hated, and her coming meant either her certain murder or the destruction of mankind, even before she was born human beings had imagined her and in imagining her slain her a thousand times."
“We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.”
If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
Tolkien asked me the very simple question, ‘What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and most hostile to, the idea of escape?’ and gave the obvious answer: jailers. The charge of escapism is, to be sure, mere mud-flinging.
"Though Isabel was stubborn as she always was, she knew that this toy would be her last. Just as well, she thought. After today, there would be none left to play with it. "
“Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy."
Heroism isn’t always about grand displays, immortalized in song and story.
Sometimes, all it takes is for you to stand between your allies and annihilation and say:
“This far, but no further”