I will follow you into the dark
Orpheus (via historysaidwhat)
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
George Carlin
Dude looks like a lady.

Louis XV to Chevalier d’Eon

My submission!

Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici
(By the power of truth, I, whilst living, have conquered the universe)
Faust (supposedly; no direct citation)
That’s me in the corner. That’s me in the spotlight, I’m losing my religion.

Rodrigo Borgia / Pope Alexander VI (via historysaidwhat)

Haha! Very clever indeed!

Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit.

Cicero

Translation: Nothing is so fortified that it cannot be conquered with money.

I guess you could say we broke up because of artistic differences - he saw himself as alive, and I saw him dead.
Mona, in the Cell Block Tango from Chicago
der Wille zur Macht - the Will to Power
Nietzsche, the man who looked at Plato and said ‘No, people don’t want to be at one with Good’; the man who announced to the utilitarian: ‘No, people don’t want to be happy’; and the man who denied Schopenhauer, arguing: ‘No, people don’t want to live’. Instead, Nietzsche said, what people want is power.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde. Oh the irony.
Nicht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschieden […] sondern durch Eisen und Blut.

Otto von Bismarck - Translation: Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided […] but by iron and blood.

I post this because I saw a production of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Evita last night, and one of the most chilling scenes is a song called ‘The Art of the Possible’, which was Bismarck’s description of politics. The scene illustrates, in a way so simple as to be severely chilling, the political maneuvering and removal of opponents that was commonplace in Argentinean politics at the time. 

For the song, either click http://open.spotify.com/track/52AFTnCzp1jUUOMNAdpbeT or (though lower quality) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kinFwq9FSrQ

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