“Freedom has been hunted around the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. In such a situation, man becomes what he ought to be.”
Thomas Paine (American […]
“Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do”
-Soren Kierkegaard
“Let me be no nearer
In death’s dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer —
Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom”
-T.S. Eliot (The Hollow Men)
“There’s no question about it, in the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has.”
-Robert F. Kennedy 1963
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, […]
“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”
-Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (American Author and Patriot)
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
- John Kenneth Galbraith
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.”
-Edward Albee (American Playwright)
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
-George Bernard Shaw
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