Law, Political Theory and Psychological Science
Archive for October, 2009
Some Quotes on Death
Oct 23rd
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- J.M. BARRIE, Peter Pan
A man dies … only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they’re gone, he’s forgotten, without a trace, as if he’d never even existed. And that’s all.
-WOLFGANG BORCHERT, The Outsider
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once.
-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
- SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, To be we More >
Life is such a bore!
Oct 22nd
I am convinced that boredom is the greatest of all tortures. Yet it seems that life’s purpose is to pass in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces. To escape this boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general. Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. This is perhaps the most disheartening aspect of life More >
Is the majority or minority stronger?
Oct 22nd
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant, when it is evident that the minority is the stronger, assume its opinion. Where upon its revise truth again reverts to a new minority.
The Search for Purpose..
Oct 22nd
Life is a fluid force which catapults us through highs and lows that never ceases to amaze. There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another. It is only through the deepest grief that we are able to achieve the greatest happiness, and only through life’s experiences do we realize the full potentiality of existence. I do not look at human beings as insignificant machines, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and More >
The Bureaucratic Control against Indigenous Australia
Oct 22nd
Captain James Cooke arrived on Australian shores in the year 1770. After charting the east coast, he officiated that Australia was uninhabited, desolate and belonged to no one, identifying Australia as terra nullius and acquiring it authoritatively for King George III . The savages, as Captain Cooke elucidated, were primitive, uneducated and uncivilised, roaming peripatetically, consuming what the land bared, and showed no motivation to cultivate, construct, or build upon their soil . As far as the European settlers were concerned, Aboriginal Australians were nothing more than a plague which lived among the fauna and flora , and if they More >
