Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.
For age with stealing steps Hath clawed me with his crutch
My lusts they do me leave, My fancies all be fled, And tract of time begins to weave Grey hairs upon my head.
The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place.
My hand and pen are not in plight, As they have been of yore.
As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust.
I loathe that I did love, In youth that I thought sweet
Have you ever heard the earth breath?
Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live.
Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.
When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.