Kesha Bakunin > Quotes

“Just as dreadful things happen indiscriminately to people who did nothing to deserve them, so do good things happen to people who deserved them even less.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“Be it justice or revenge—both solemn affairs—it wouldn’t do to go about such business with flippant barbarity or barbaric flippancy.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“Stupidity, when combined with ignorance, can’t be
defeated through reason—only by another stupidity, more palatable for the audience.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“The ferocity with which one is instilling his ideas is usually inversely related to their value.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“There's no greater virtue than curiosity as there's no greater reward than knowledge.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“It takes a man of belief to generously—and self-righteously!—dispense eternal rapture or perdition.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“Stupidity, when combined with ignorance, can’t be defeated through reason—only by another stupidity, more palatable for the audience.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“Only someone with the mind of a slave would impute the same to others.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“Destruction has always been the greatest of equalizers.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“Truth solidified into the written form was the most dangerous thing known to man.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“Truthful explanations were dangerous, unruly beasts; they could lead to awkward questions and hazardous conclusions. Scapegoats, by contrast, had long been domesticated.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“There were times when I acted against my conscience. And there were times when I acted against my best judgement. But I felt worst when I acted against both at once.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“Intellectual lassitude and moral apathy: a pair of qualities which, when combined, are a source of the most profound immiseration known to man.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“It's the best cure for one who has been emasculated to pretend that it happened with one's own consent.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“Hypocrisy might be the last refuge of civility.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“The measure of an intelligent being is how many things unnecessary for survival or immediate comfort it deliberately and freely seeks to learn.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“People live in a cage of their own making. And it is impossible to break out of it because it was never locked in the first place. It is a cage wide shut.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“In politics, sentimentality is a refuge for the worst kind of tyrants—the ones who do evil with tearful eyes.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“People would believe anything if they liked it badly enough.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“It's only how much you know and can do that defines who you are.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“One can carry only a day’s worth of piss within oneself, but one can carry a lifetime’s worth of grief and resentment. It’s a shame that our body only urges us to purge the former while holding on to the latter as though one’s pain is some kind of moral currency to lord over others.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold

“There are no good or bad choices as such. Only the ones whose consequences are more aligned with your goals and the ones whose consequences are less aligned with your goals.”
― Kesha Bakunin, Stronghold