pettiness

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
57574dc	Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.	pettiness feeling	Sebastian Faulks
6d8c5b9	Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have kept my faith in the power of civilization to bring men back from the brink. And yet one women writes a letter, and my whole world falls to pieces. You see, she is an ordinary woman. A good one, even. That's the point ... Nothing [a recognizably bad person does] can surprise or shock me, or worry me. But she denounced Julia and sent her to her death because she resented her, and because Julia is a Jew. I thought in this simple contrast between the civilized and the barbaric, but I was wrong. It is the civilized who are the truly barbaric, and the [Nazi] Germans are merely the supreme expression of it.	war good denunciation ordinariness pettiness nazis wwii civilization resentment jews evil	Iain Pears
c437587	"Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't) 'if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn't quite recognize", Blumenthal recalls with horror the night that I 'gave' a farewell party for Martin Walker of the	television politics friendship diana-princess-of-wales martin-walker-reporter marty-peretz nightline presidency-of-bill-clinton sidney-blumenthal the-guardian the-new-republic university-of-oxford pettiness oxford argumentation mother-teresa bill-clinton journalism united-states england betrayal london new-york	Christopher Hitchens
d2495c5	Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.	big-government car-alarms mayoralty-of-michael-bloomberg michael-bloomberg pettiness cars law tyranny	Christopher Hitchens
f4ba746	This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.	pettiness humankind	Dennis Lehane
d020cde	He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.	oddness pettiness normality	Umberto Eco

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

Sebastian Faulks

6d8c5b9

Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have kept my faith in the power of civilization to bring men back from the brink. And yet one women writes a letter, and my whole world falls to pieces. You see, she is an ordinary woman. A good one, even. That's the point ... Nothing [a recognizably bad person does] can surprise or shock me, or worry me. But she denounced Julia and sent her to her death because she resented her, and because Julia is a Jew. I thought in this simple contrast between the civilized and the barbaric, but I was wrong. It is the civilized who are the truly barbaric, and the [Nazi] Germans are merely the supreme expression of it.

war good denunciation ordinariness pettiness nazis wwii civilization resentment jews evil

Iain Pears

c437587

"Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't) 'if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn't quite recognize", Blumenthal recalls with horror the night that I 'gave' a farewell party for Martin Walker of the

television politics friendship diana-princess-of-wales martin-walker-reporter marty-peretz nightline presidency-of-bill-clinton sidney-blumenthal the-guardian the-new-republic university-of-oxford pettiness oxford argumentation mother-teresa bill-clinton journalism united-states england betrayal london new-york

Christopher Hitchens

d2495c5

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

big-government car-alarms mayoralty-of-michael-bloomberg michael-bloomberg pettiness cars law tyranny

Christopher Hitchens

f4ba746

This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.

pettiness humankind

Dennis Lehane

d020cde

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

oddness pettiness normality

Umberto Eco