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What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'oh, our attitude has changed. we don't dislike these people any more.' but by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

-Christopher Isherwood

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What Irritates Me Is The Bland Way

Christopher Isherwood

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'oh, our attitude has changed. we don't dislike these people any more.' but by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

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Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. it's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. a survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.

So it's a coincidence. just like you said. two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. they're both killed in accidents. why are you so interested?" "because i don't like coincidence," blunt replied. "in fact, i don't believe in coincidence. where some people see coincidence, i see conspiracy. that's my job.

State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to congress. ... inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass. no direct general power over these objects is granted to congress, and, consequently, they remain subject to state legislation.

When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. all they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. by our attitude, we decide to try or give up. by our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. in this sense all beings have their laws: the deity his laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

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