Melissa Hurley

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“Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.”
Cornel West, Cornel West Reader

Alan             Moore
“Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.”
Alan Moore, Watchmen

Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.”
Allen Wheelis, Moralist

Joseph Stalin
“I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”
Joseph Stalin
tags: wise

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