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“It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.”

- Thornton Wilder,

Tag: happiness, insensitivity, poverty,

“As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.”

- Criss Jami,

Tag: bandwagon, commemorate, commemoration, culture, day, death, fabrication, falsehood, god, holiday, honest, individual, insensitivity, insincere, love, lovelessness, memorial, memorial-day, memories, memory, nationalism, patriot, patriotic, patriotism, pop, pop-culture, popular, popular-culture, pride, routine, selfishness, society, tithe, tragedy, universal, vanity,

All Quotes By Tag: Insensitivity