Milan Kundera, wrote in his book Immortality:
“The more the fight for human rights gains in popularity, the more it loses
any concrete content, becoming a kind of universal stance of everyone toward
everything, a kind of energy that turns all human desires into rights.
The world has become man’s right and everything in it has become a right:
the desire for love the right to love, the desire for rest the right to rest,
the desire for friendship the right to friendship, the desire to exceed the
speed limit the right to exceed the speed limit, the desire for happiness the
right to happiness, the desire to publish a book the right to publish a book,
the desire to shout in the street in the middle of the night the right to shout
in the street.”
The Contentious Centrist
"Civilization is not self-supporting. It is artificial. If you are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization -- you are done." (Ortega y Gasset)
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