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I will always favorite and boost a force-fit Richard III toot. As for the over-excited zealots complaining about the reference to Discord, the desired target form would not support USENET or Archie or BBS or other archaic protocols or environments. Pay no attention to those philistines.
#Richard3 #discontent #decorum
#discontent
“You talkin’ to me”
Taxi Driver at 50: Martin Scorsese’s film remains a troubling reflection of our times - a forlorn portrait of a society coming apart at the seams.
“There are a lot of Travis Bickles, especially right now.”
"They’re all talking to each other on the internet. When I first wrote about him, he was talking to nobody. He really was, at that point, the Underground Man. Now he’s the Internet Man."
"It is a sobering thought."
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https://theconversation.com/taxi-driver-at-50-martin-scorseses-film-remains-a-troubling-reflection-of-our-times-261662
#ressentiment #violence #discontent #masculinity #rage #racism #misogyny #EconomicDecline #loss #ranking #valorisation #ImperialistViolence #inequality #progress #regression #WesternModernity #SocialAcceleration #film #internet #PublicSphere #OnEdge
The German federal government is losing support again.In the weekly Sunday trend collected by the opinion‑polling institute Insa for the newspaper "Bild am Sonn... https://news.osna.fm/?p=33398 | #news #amid #approval #declines #discontent
A hungry man [is] an angry man.
James Howell (c. 1594 - 1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]
More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/12061/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #anger #discontent #dissatisfaction #hunger #resentment #temper
A quotation from Henry Commager
The rich and respectable have always had their ways of making their discontent heard; the poor and unorganized must resort to protests and marches and demonstrations.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review
More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #class #demonstration #discontent #dissent #freespeech #freedomofspeech #march #poor #powerful #protest #unhappiness #voice #wealth #wealthy
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) American union leader, activist, socialist, politician
Speech (1908-05-23), “The Issue,” Girard, Kansas
More about this quote: wist.info/debs-eugene-v/375/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #debs #eugenedebs #activism #activist #agitation #complaint #discontent #dissatisfaction #drive #improvement #motivation #progress #stagnation #unhappiness
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help him in this way.
[Ἤτοι οὐδὲν δύνανται οἱ θεοὶ ἢ δύνανται. εἰ μὲν οὖν μὴ δύνανται, τί εὔχῃ; εἰ δὲ δύνανται, διὰ τί οὐχὶ μᾶλλον εὔχῃ. διδόναι αὐτοὺς τὸ μήτε φοβεῖσθαί τι τούτων μήτε ἐπιθυμεῖν τινος τούτων μήτε λυπεῖσθαι ἐπί τινι τούτων, μᾶλλον ἤπερ τὸ μὴ παρεῖναί τι τούτων ἢ τὸ παρεῖναι; πάντως γάρ, εἰ δύνανται συνεργεῖν ἀνθρώποις, καὶ εἰς ταῦτα δύνανται συνεργεῖν.]
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 40 (9.40) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8135…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #desire #discontent #divineblessing #divineguideance #divineintervention #divinemercy #divinepower #emotion #fear #giftsfromGod #God #gods #grief #intercession #prayer #selfcontrol #stoicism
Reports from human rights organizations indicate a rapidly escalating situation in Iran, with at least 17 deaths confirmed amidst week-long protests sparked by... https://news.osna.fm/?p=29517 | #news #amid #death #discontent #economic
A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Yet it is certain, likewise, that many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111
More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/80903…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #comparison #desire #discontent #envy #gratification #jealousy #keepingupwiththejoneses #lack #misery #resentment #unhappiness #want
#discontent : to deprive of content
- French: mécontent
- German: die Unzufriedenheit
- Italian: malcontento
- Portuguese: descontente
- Spanish: disgusto
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The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
(Misattributed)
Quite a bit more about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/3923/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #contentment #discontent #envy #happiness #jealousy #life #perspective #poor #poverty #rich #wealth #wealthy
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Marisa acteert elke werkdag op kantoor dat het druk heeft. Het liefst kijkt ze filmpjes op YouTube.
https://www.prozario.nl/boeken/ontevreden/
#BeatrizSerrano #Ontevreden #ElDescontento #SpaanseLiteratuur #burnout #discontent #Literatuur #proza #prozario
A quotation from Richard Hooker
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
Richard Hooker (1554-1600) English theologian
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 1, ch. 1 (1594)
More info about this quote: wist.info/hooker-richard/78887…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardhooker #complaint #discontent #government #leadership #misgovernment
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Mass #Protests Highlight Growing #Discontent With #Netanyahu & the #Gaza #War
Many Israelis feel that freeing the #hostages cannot happen if the government refuses to come to terms with #Hamas & pursues its policy of trying to eliminate the group militarily.
#Israel #Palestinians #HumantarianCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/world/middleeast/israel-protests-gaza-netanyahu-hostages.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Public satisfaction with Chancellor Friedrich Merz continues to decline, according to a recent poll conducted by the opinion research institute INSA for "Bild a... https://news.osna.fm/?p=9484 | #news #behind #cdu #discontent #whats
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Merely to realize the causes of one’s own envious feelings is to take a long step towards curing them. The habit of thinking in terms of comparison is a fatal one.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 6 “Envy” (1930)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/778…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #comparison #discontent #envy #jealousy #perspective #relativity #selfawareness
#discontent : to deprive of content
- French: mécontent
- German: die Unzufriedenheit
- Italian: malcontento
- Portuguese: descontente
- Spanish: disgusto
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