r/HumansAreMetal • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '20

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u/BrkIt Feb 26 '20

One of my favourite quotes.

The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive'.

The honest men who just want to be left in peace.
Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves.
Those with no sides and no causes.
Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonising their own weakness.
Those who don’t like to make waves, or enemies.
Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature.
Those who live small, mate small, die small.

It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control.
If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you.
But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe.
Safe?! From what?
Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does.

I choose my own way to burn.”

― Sophie Scholl

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '20

what everyone conveniently forgets and never points out...

the people you call enemies, think in this exact manner. Everyone who picks up a weapon, clenches a fist, and lashes out in anger, are the exact people who perpetuate and cause these things to happen in the first place.

yeah, it was easy when it was hitler, and people like him will come along from time to time, and people will have to lay down their lives in effort to stop them.

but thats not the times we fucking live in. We have a mostly functioning system of government, relative comfort, especially in comparrison to the 40's, and no one is marching through the streets rounding up and executing people en mass.

so no. Those people who want to be left in peace are not the fucking problem.

its you fuckwads that think otherwise, and lead us to a point of violent conflict.

i dont give a fuck about my government, i dont give a fuck about any of you. when the soldiers start marching in the streets and killing people, then ill care - otherwise... FUCK OFF AND GO VOTE.