Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
Interpretation
Witchcraft symbolizes uncontrollable events, emphasizing how certain actions, once initiated, become irreversible.
This quote by Mikhail Bulgakov suggests that once people engage in certain behaviors or actions—like witchcraft—they often lead to unpredictable and uncontrollable consequences. It reflects on the nature of human actions and the complexities of morality and consequence, highlighting how some paths, once taken, cannot be undone or halted, much like the spread of witchcraft in society.
In practice
In a discussion about history and its constant repetition, this quote highlights the caution needed when initiating drastic changes.
But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.
just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
Remove the document—and you remove the man.
Literature has become my life.
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.
When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.
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