Dii Quotes

Introite, nam et heic Dii sunt! (Enter, for here too are gods.)

Il dottor Saunders era incline a filosofare: il pregio della vita, diceva, non sta nei momenti dii eccitazione ma nei placidi intervalli in cui lo spirito umano, serenamente, tranquillo, non turbato dal ricordo delle emozioni, guarda se stesso con il distacco del Buddha contemplante il proprio ombelico.

Dii Nvwati (Cherokee). Translation: Skunk medicine. The skunk asks us to defend ourselves effectively, without causing further conflict. Self-protection but do no harm. Gangsterish peace-making. That is the kind of masculinity that I try to embody. With my leadership, with my poise, with my privileges. As my body continues on a journey of thickening, muscle hardening, limbs lengthening, Ayurvedic drying, shorter synapse pathways, fuzzier intuition, and choppier verbal articulation all facilitated by weekly testosterone injections these are poignant lessons to forward. The objective is for men and masculine people to not yield our power to others… Women and femme people don’t need our paternalistic sickle to swath as we ‘tap out.’ We must figure out power without domination. The skunk asks us to use our powers effectively, without wiping ourselves out. Without recapitulating top down, give-less-to-get-more social structures. Just as the skunk does not seek to be the bear, let us not attempt to trade places with the oppressor. Let us navigate a road of paradigm shifting that seeks to salve both current social and economic injuries, but also prepare a sustainable method of being for seven generations to come.

I lay back down and looked up at the rising crescent moon. I could hardly bring myself to think about it, but hope rose up inside me too. I wanted to believe it, for Sook-dii and for me. I wanted to believe there really was a way I could get us both back home again” (Lewis 209).

Altre città regalavano al primo venuto splendori e incantamenti, esaltanti proiezioni verso il passato o l'avvenire, febbrili pulsazioni, squisiti stimoli e diversivi; altre ancora offrivano riparo, consolazione, convivialità immediate. Ma per chi, come lui, preferiva vivere senza montarsi la testa, Torino, doveva riconoscerlo, era tagliata e squadrata su misura. A nessuno, qui, era consentito farsi illusioni: ci si ritrovava sempre, secondo la feroce immagine dei nativi, 'al pian dii babi', al livello di rospi. Si ripeté più volte la frase, con una specie di acre compiacimento: sapere, e mai dimenticare, di essere 'al pian di babii'; nient'altro, in fondo, pretendeva da te la città, che poi, una volta fatta la burbera tara del creato, stabilito il peso netto tuo e dell'universo, ti spalancava, se volevi profittarne, i suoi infiniti, deliranti spacchi prospettici.

Omnes dii gentium daemonia sunt; Dominus autem coelos fecit. Deliver us, O Lord, from religiosity and Godlessness alike, lest we wander in fakery or die of boredom. Restore to us Thyself as Giver and the secular as Thy gift. Let idols perish and con jobs cease. Give repentance and better minds to all pagans and secularists; in the meantime, of Thy mercy, keep them out of our cellars.

Diu æstuanti commodum succurrebat, quod olim ab erudito apud nostrates viro audiveram, T e u t o n i c o s h o m i n e s i n s a t i a b i l e s c r i b e n d i c a c oe t h es t e n e r e : verum paucissimis datum aliquid producere , quod inventionis acumine , aut genii lepore politi applausum seculi possit provocare. Ne tamen perituræ parcatur chartæ, pleramque turbam petitas passim particulas in unam compingere massam , vix uspiam adspersa judicii mica. Nec plagii apud ipsos habere crimen , aliorum opera paucis interpolata locis pro novis venditare. Aliquos denique sibi locum inter autores deberi credere, quod diffusius aliquod scriptum in compendium, aut, si Diis placet , in tabellas, memoriæ , an stupiditati juvandæ ? redegerint.

The statue serves as an act of defiance. The sculptor knew exactly what he was doing. Ezekiel wanted to portray an “accurate” history of the loyal, happy slave, not the “lies” told through books like Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which showed the brutality of slavery. Instead, the artist said the monument represents the South, which fought “for a constitutional right, and not to uphold slavery.”54 Ezekiel created a monument to white supremacy at the final resting place for soldiers who fought and died to create a more just society, including African American soldiers. Inscribed on the monument is the Latin phrase “Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Catoni,” by the Roman poet Lucan. The English translation reads, “The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the conquered cause pleased Cato.” My Roman history is weak, but the historian Jamie Malanowski broke down the meaning: You have to know your Latin history to know they’re talking about the Roman Civil War, that the dictator Julius Caesar won, and that Cato was pleased with the republicans’ sacrifice. With that background in mind the inscription is a ‘fuck you’ to the Union. It’s that sneaky little Latin phrase essentially saying ‘we were right and you were wrong, and we’ll always be right and you’ll always be wrong.’55

VICTRIX CAVSA DIIS PLACVIT SED VICTA PVELLIS