Hollow Be They Name, Part Three

 "...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them..." -- Livy, The History of Rome

Hollow Be They Name, Part Two...

 "The various forms of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the People as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; by the magistrate as equally useful..." -- Edward Gibbon, "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Hollow Be Thy Name, Part One

"Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannize but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is shepherd..." -- Alexis de Tocqueville

Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 9/16/2023) -- A Twofer!

 "And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite." -- Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

A Mental Health Absence...

 "These are the times that try men's souls..." -- Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis"

Shut Your Trap, Sister!

 "You can't raise Men. You know nothing about being a Man, for starters..." -- The Overlord

Make it Stop...

 "The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" -- George Orwell, "1984"