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Overall, it must be said that those who kill or harm living creatures, or set them up to fight each other for their own pleasure, are no better than wild beast themelves. If you pause and look carefully at the birds and animals, and even the little insects, you will see that they love their children, feel affection for their parents, live in couples, are jealous, angry, full of desire, self-protecting and fearful for their lives, and far more so than men, since they lack all intelligence.

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by Meredith McKinney

The world won't just magically morph into a better place as a function of its existence: we are responsible for confronting the past, fixing the present, and shaping the future.

Dan Olsen in In Search Of A Flat Earth

[...] that it is the birthright of any empire to die.

Curious Archive in The Most Powerful Type of Worldbuilding

Personally, I prefer the more modern spiritual tradition involving a large pepperoni pizza, adult swim on the TV, and an unlabeled Ziploc bag full of something from a guy in your contacts list who goes by "the wizard".

FunkyFrogBait in The ALIEN INFLUENCERS of Instagram Reels

Race is a social construct. It is an invented classification system, which means that it varies greatly according to different cultures, different times, and different social groups.

Siobhan Brier Aguilar in A Modern, Literary Review of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey

The word "masculinity" was first written down in 1748, not that long before macaronis came on the scene, and masculinity has been in crisis ever since. Every generation thinks that their men are weaker, softer, and more effeminate than ever before. And it's never been true, because no matter what men wear or how they speak or who they sleep with or how good they are at press-ups, their masculinity is not in crisis. Because if a man is doing it, then it is masculine.

J. Drapper in Masculinity Has Always Been "In Crisis"