General / Off-Topic Sayings and phrases.

Morbad

Morbad
The swine don't want pearls: they want corn; and it's foolish to hope to change their tastes.
--from a 1925 letter from George Sterling to Clark Ashton Smith, on mainstream literature of the times.

I find the sentiment equally relevant today when it comes to much mainstream media.
 

Wimmer

Wimmer

EUS

EUS
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
—C. S. Lewis
 

ethelred

ethelred
I work for an organisation where we have only 2 rules:-

1. Try not to lose money.

And the most important:-

2. Don't embarrass us.

I think #2 is particularly relevant as it seems to be the rule Frontier has applied to the recent scandal.
 
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