If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them. You may, more especially, give up the attempt to control those things which most people agree to be social evils, such as war; or to mention a smaller but nevertheless important thing, the tyranny of the petty official.
Archive for 2009
Quote: Karl Popper
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Paraquotes: Vonnegut
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009There is a tragic flaw with our precious “democracy”, and this is it:
Only lunatics want to be politicians”
List of Surprises: Mstislav Dobuzhinsky
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
October Idyll
I would hope that you are equally enchanted by the imaginary 134th birthday of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.
His revolution, his progress were not ideals, their underbellies were too encroaching for that sort of nonsense.
Man with Spectacles
More of Dobuzhinsky: courtesy of “Olga”