“liges sine morbus vanae”
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“I made my mind a sunless place
I share my dreams with ghosts
I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago, from which there’s only one conclusion
I’m damned for what I do
My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight
They’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape
I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down, there was no longer any ground beneath my feet
What’s my sacrifice?
I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them
I burn my decency for someone else’s future
I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see
And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror, or an audience or the light of gratitude
So what do I sacrifice
EVERYTHING
So you’ll stay with me Lonni
I need all the heroes I can get”
―
I share my dreams with ghosts
I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago, from which there’s only one conclusion
I’m damned for what I do
My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight
They’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape
I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down, there was no longer any ground beneath my feet
What’s my sacrifice?
I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them
I burn my decency for someone else’s future
I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see
And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror, or an audience or the light of gratitude
So what do I sacrifice
EVERYTHING
So you’ll stay with me Lonni
I need all the heroes I can get”
―
“There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.”
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“Enthusiasm and adventure
In all cases, propaganda of agitation tries to stretch energies to the utmost, obtain substantial sacrifices, and induce the individual to bear heavy ordeals. It takes him out of his everyday life, his normal framework, and plunges him into enthusiasm and adventure; it opens to him hitherto unsuspected possibilities, and suggests extraordinary goals that nevertheless seem to him completely within reach. Propaganda of agitation thus unleashes an explosive movement; it operates inside a crisis or actually provokes the crisis itself. On the other hand, such propaganda can obtain only effects of relatively short duration. If the proposed objective is not achieved fast enough, enthusiasm will give way to discouragement and despair. Therefore specialists in agitation propaganda break up the desired goals into a series of stages to be reached one by one.”
― Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
In all cases, propaganda of agitation tries to stretch energies to the utmost, obtain substantial sacrifices, and induce the individual to bear heavy ordeals. It takes him out of his everyday life, his normal framework, and plunges him into enthusiasm and adventure; it opens to him hitherto unsuspected possibilities, and suggests extraordinary goals that nevertheless seem to him completely within reach. Propaganda of agitation thus unleashes an explosive movement; it operates inside a crisis or actually provokes the crisis itself. On the other hand, such propaganda can obtain only effects of relatively short duration. If the proposed objective is not achieved fast enough, enthusiasm will give way to discouragement and despair. Therefore specialists in agitation propaganda break up the desired goals into a series of stages to be reached one by one.”
― Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
“For when a man is faced with a curse he answers, 'I'll take care of my problems alone'. And he puts everything to work to become powerful, to keep the curse from having its effects. He creates the arts and the sciences, he raises an army, he constructs chariots, he builds cities. The spirit of might is a response to the divine curse, and one could almost say that such a spirit would never have existed if there had been no curse in the first place.”
― Meaning of the City
― Meaning of the City
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