Desire
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?” ― Virgil, The Aeneid #FavoriteQuotes
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mariokiefer
- Sep 19
- 1 min
Puppetry
“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a...
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mariokiefer
- Sep 12
- 1 min
Phoenicians
“That’s a slave’s life, you’re describing, not to be able to speak freely.” ~EURIPIDES Greek tragic poet (480 or 485 B.C. - 406 B.C), in...
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mariokiefer
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Nursery
“Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten or twelve...
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mariokiefer
- Aug 29
- 1 min
Control
“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another,...
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mariokiefer
- Aug 22
- 1 min
Equity
"Equity as a concept says recognize that everyone has the same capacity, but in order for them to have equal opportunity to reach that...
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mariokiefer
- Aug 15
- 1 min
No Mountain Climbing
“We must all be alike. Not everyone BORN free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone MADE equal. Each man the image of every...
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mariokiefer
- Aug 8
- 1 min
Oh, The Humanity
“This virus cannot kill off the whole of humankind without first killing off its humanity. Man fears that at the End of Days, demons from...
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mariokiefer
- Aug 1
- 1 min
Altruism
“[O]f all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of ‘altruism’ is the worst. People do what they want to, every time.” — the...
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mariokiefer
- Jul 25
- 1 min
Truth
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations...
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mariokiefer
- Jul 18
- 1 min
It's All Believable
"I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain...
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mariokiefer
- Jul 11
- 1 min
Seriously Serious
"We've got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously," ~ Kamala Harris...
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mariokiefer
- Jul 4
- 2 min
Independence
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with...
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mariokiefer
- Jun 27
- 1 min
Scoffers
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of...
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mariokiefer
- Jun 20
- 1 min
Strange
“And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.” ~ Exodus 2:22...
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mariokiefer
- Jun 13
- 1 min
Everyone's A Critic
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one...
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mariokiefer
- Jun 6
- 1 min
The Majority
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” - Marcus...
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mariokiefer
- May 30
- 1 min
Expensive
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone." - Frederic Bastiat...
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mariokiefer
- May 23
- 1 min
Childish
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish...
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mariokiefer
- May 16
- 1 min
Cruel Kindness
“Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?” ~ Frank Herbert, Dune #FavoriteQuotes
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