"Life is far too important a thing to ever talk seriously about"........... Oscar Wilde
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
Albert Einsten (via darylelockhart)
(Source: sirmitchell)
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
Thucydides (via artoftheunbeliever)
The Sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
Carl Sagan
The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.
1984, George Orwell (via philphys)
