Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
— H. L. Mencken
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
— Theodor Adorno, Minimia Moralia
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
— Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“To work and create ‘for nothing,’ to sculpture in clay, to know that one’s creation has no future, to see one’s work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries — this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on one hand and magnifying on the other, is the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors.”
-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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