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Do celu tam się wysiada. Lec Stanisław Jerzy (pierw. de Tusch-Letz, 1909-1966)
A bogowie grają w kości i nie pytają wcale czy chcesz przyłączyć się do gry (. . . ) Bogowie kpią sobie z twojego poukładanego życia (. . . ) nie przejmują się zbytnio ani naszymi planami na przyszłość ani oczekiwaniami. Gdzieś we wszechświecie rzucają kości i przypadkiem wypada twoja kolej. I odtąd zwyciężyć lub przegrać - to tylko kwestia szczęścia. Borys Pasternak
Idąc po kurzych jajach nie podskakuj. Przysłowie szkockie
I Herkules nie poradzi przeciwko wielu.
Dialog półinteligentów równa się monologowi ćwierćinteligenta. Stanisław Jerzy Lec (pierw. de Tusch - Letz, 1909-1966)
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. I believe it was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and theirposterity for ever. 15Flushed out of his complacent confidence that everyone agreed that slaverywas wrong and needed to be contained, Lincoln now had to make explicit theintellectual premises of antislavery which he had so long taken for granted,and in the 1850s, those premises took the form of an argument from naturallaw.Partly this grew from his sense that the American Republic had beenfounded around something more than common.something even morethan National Independence. But partly it was because majoritarian democ-racy alone offered him no other way out of slavery s box.Like Solomon of old,who asked the sluggard to consider the ant, Lincoln asked whether anythingpeople could observe in nature suggested that slavery was a natural conditionfor any creature:The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiouslydefend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him.So plain,that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, doesconstantly know that he is wronged.So plain that no one, high or low, everdoes mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume uponvolume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of theman who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.The appeal to a natural instinct opposing slavery became Lincoln s strategyfor outflanking Douglas s demand that whatever the electorate is, is right, and 82 lincoln and natural lawfrom 1854 onwards, natural law became the principal weapon Lincoln used tobatter down the protecting walls of popular sovereignty and, after Dred Scottin 1857, the dictum of the Supreme Court in behalf of slavery. Is not slaveryuniversally granted to be, in the abstract, a gross outrage on the law of nature? Lincoln asked. Have not all civilized nations, our own among them, madethe Slave trade capital, and classed it with piracy and murder? Is it not held tobe the great wrong of the world? 16Lincoln has frequently and with increasing frequency in the last half-cen-tury been criticized for his failure to move beyond natural law and naturalrights to an affirmation of civil equality and civil rights.When he finally chal-lenged Stephen A.Douglas to a face-to-face showdown in the great campaignhe and Douglas waged for Illinois s U.S.Senate seat in 1858, he was quick to saythat he saw nothing in the Constitution which authorized him to advocate theuprooting of the Southern states slavery statutes and no purpose to introducepolitical or social equality between the black and white races. And so it hasbeen asked with increasing puzzlement just what Lincoln thought he was af-firming when he limited himself to talking about a natural equality of blacksand whites.But this puzzlement only underscores how feeble and attenuatedmodern understandings of natural law have become, and how natural rights havebeen collapsed along with civil rights into a generalized, and for-the-most-partshapeless, concept of human rights. Lincoln s affirmation of natural law wasa determined step outside the increasing movement toward pure majoritarianprocess and toward an affirmation that American democracy was built arounda transcendent core of universal truths.(That affirmation, as Lincoln enjoyedsaying, had been originally crafted by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration ofIndependence, thus trumping not only Jefferson s practical failure to live up to hisown propositions, but Douglas s failure to live up to the standards of the founderof his own party.) Douglas s arguments had no other direction than toward thediminishment of those truths and the unmooring of American democracy fromthe architecture of its Founders, pressing out of view, the Questions of Liberty and restoring those of classification, caste, and legitimacy
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