“The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.” — Stephen Jay Gould, Eight Little Piggies
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https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/quote-of-the-day-5358/
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 9 “Fear of Public Opinion” (1930)
More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/792…
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A quotation from John Maynard Keynes
[Capitalism is] the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
(Attributed)
Vague sourcing, extensive notes: wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/…
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A quotation from Judith Martin
Miss Manners is amazed at the number of otherwise gentle souls who turn nasty when they are driving. And they all suffer from the wonderful, ostrich-like delusion that they cannot be identified because they are safely inside their cars. It seems silly to her to have to say what good driving manners are. They are the same as the simplest, most obvious of non-driving manners, except that each person is surrounded by thousands of dollars of treacherous metal.Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1981-03-29)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/75509/
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188) The attacks on #KamalaHarris will come hard and fast until the #GOP congeals and coalesces around a smear that satisfies them.
Rather than attempting to swat these attacks, the job is to define the #Trump campaign with the truth: #Narcissism, #Nastiness, #Negativity, Nativism.
They have no plan for our commonwealth, just a desire to loot and enrich cronies who find democracy inconvenient.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/racist-and-misogynistic-attacks-on-kamala-harris
Ohio lawmakers ban gender-affirming care for minors, overriding governor’s veto https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/24/transcare-veto-override/
As cruel as it is unconstitutional.
Seriously, apart from the fact that these laws target people based on sex, there is not even a legitimate govt reason to deny medical care.
#law #lawFedi #lawfed #fedilaw #lawProf #LGBTQ #equality #Ohio #nastiness
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