bottleofmalibu

"To nejhorší, co se může člověku stát je vystavit druhého zbytečnému utrpení." — Kateřina Šimáčková at Jsme to, co čteme 3.0 – Šimáčková, Hořejší, Horáková

Be selfish and loving.

Odpovědnost roste s mocí — ne klesá.

Looking back, it is astonishing how intimately, intelligently snobbish we all were, how knowledgeable about names and addresses, how swift to detect small differences in accents and manners and the cut of clothes. There were some boys who seemed to drip money from their pores even in the bleak misery of the middle of a winter term. At the beginning and end of the term, especially, there was naiively snobbish chatter about Switzerland, and Scotland with its ghillies and grouse moors, and ‘my uncle's yacht’, and ‘our place in the country’. — George Orwell on the time before 1914, Books v. Cigarettes

No one has the right to obey.

bottleofmalibu turned 13 years old on Saturday.

“It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.” — Hannah Arendt, Eichmann and the Holocaust