A quotation from Freeman Dyson
I felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) English-American theoretical physicist, mathematician, futurist
In Jon Else, dir., The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, Part 2 (1981)
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I felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons…
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 119ff (431 BC) [tr. Podlecki (1989)]
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NURSE: Terrible is the temperament of royalty, Who are rarely controlled, always imperious; It is hard for them to give up their wrath. To get used to living like everybody else Is better. [ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: δεινὰ τυράννων λήματα καί πως ὀλίγ᾽ ἀρχόμενοι, πολλὰ κρατοῦντες χαλεπῶς ὀργὰς μεταβάλλουσιν. τὸ γὰρ εἰθίσθαι ζῆν…
A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
We hold that our loyalty is due solely to the American Republic, and to all our public servants exactly in proportion as they efficiently and faithfully serve the Republic. Our opponents, in flat contradiction of Lincoln’s position, hold that our loyalty is due to the President, not the country; to one man, the servant of the people, instead of to the people themselves. In practice they adopt the fetishism of all believers in absolutism; for every man who parrots the cry of “stand by the President,” without adding the proviso “so far as he serves the Republic” takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart Royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent freeman can take such an attitude.Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1918-05), “Lincoln and Free Speech,” Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 6
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We hold that our loyalty is due solely to the American Republic, and to all our public servants exactly in proportion as they efficiently and faithfully serve the Republic. Our opponents, in flat contradiction of Lincoln's position, hold that our loyalty is due to the President, not the country; to…
From the Chronicles of Dawnmaster Aeneas, The Morninglord’s Chosen
SPOILER WARNING: This entire post contains heavy spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3, and in particular The Dark Urge origin! Proceed to read at your own peril!
Written in the Year of Three Ships Sailing, 1492 DR, the following are extracts from the Chronicles of Dawnmaster Aeneas, a Bhaalspawn who was at the center of the events of the Mindflayer invasion. Together with a group of similarly lost […]
4. Retribution
Everything above in this section is necessary background to
frame the problem this President has with the First Amendment.
Where things run off the rails for him is his fixation with
“retribution.” “I am your retribution,” he thundered famously
while on the campaign trail. 59 Yet government retribution for
speech (precisely what has happened here) is directly forbidden
by the First Amendment. The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek
retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to
Americans’ freedom of speech. It is at this juncture that the
judiciary has robustly rebuffed the President and his
administration.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf
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