Category: human condition
- Labels: america, corporations, corruption, delusion, dreams, human condition, humour, illusions, lies, mind control, money, power, truth
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
- Labels: action, choice, commitment, history, human condition, perspective, philosophy
âThe best that we can do
is to be kindly and helpful
toward our friends and fellow passengers
who are clinging to the same speck of dirt
while we are drifting side by side
to our common doomâ
- Labels: altruism, compassion, earth, human condition, love, perspective
“Just look at us.
Everything is backwards,
everything is upside down.
Doctors destroy health,
lawyers destroy justice,
psychiatrists destroy minds,
scientists destroy truth,
major media destroys information,
religions destroy spirituality
and governments destroy freedom.”
Michael Ellner
- Labels: corporations, corruption, deception, earth, greed, human condition, ignorance, insanity, stupidity, violence, war, waste
- Labels: antiwar, deception, enemy, hubris, human, human condition, human rights, humanity, humility, philosophy, psychology, war
“May the angels lead you into paradise;
may the martyrs come to welcome you
and take you to the holy city,
the new and eternal Jerusalem.
May choirs of angels welcome you
and lead you to the bosom of Abraham;
and where Lazarus is poor
no longer may you find eternal rest.”
- Labels: clarity, earth, extinction, future, human condition, insanity, insight, nature, sustainable, waste
Counter-protester with her daughters at a civil liberties rally by black people, Bogalusa, Louisiana, 1965
Toffs and Toughs â The famous photo by Jimmy Sime that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937
The last commercial sailing ship, Pamir, to round Cape Horn in 1949
Searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar, 1942
James Dean posing in the coffin in the local undertaker in his home town in the year of his car crash and ensuing death, January 1955
Major General Horatio Gordon Robley with his collection of tattooed Maori heads, 1895
Japanese guards bow before US prisoners of war being released from a Yokohama detention center following the capitulation of Japan, 1945
Iranian woman before the Islamic Revolution, 1960
Georges Blind, a Member of the French Resistance, Smiling at a German Firing Squad, October 1944
Fidel Castro plays baseball in Havana, 1959
Execution by cannon, in Shiraz, Iran, mid-late 19th century
- Labels: art, clarity, compassion, history, human condition, insight, obscene
âI must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.â
I once knew a man
who says death smiles at us all
all a man can do is smile back
- Labels: death, human condition, Life, philosophy
Ultimately we’re all dead men
sadly we cannot choose how but
we can decide how we meet that end
so that we are remembered as men
- Labels: courage, death, human condition, perspective, philosophy