Monday Ménage With A Plus-Two: Edition Ink Blots, Moral Idiots, Lies and Politics

Kirkpatrick. Urrea. Orwell. Robinson. Stalin.

 

I was a woman in a man’s world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. Jeane Kirkpatrick.

 

When your politics no longer have room for empathy, things spin into an amoral chaos. Not only the desperate suffer. Who gets hurt and who stays safe becomes hard to predict. Luis Alberto Urrea.

 

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell.

 

What’s the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot. Kim Stanley Robinson.

 

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. Joseph Stalin.