political

50% of all facts are false and the other half are just made up

There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.

Censorship is alive and well in America.

Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top

Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.

The worst possible outlook is indifference that says, __ can__ do anything about it; I__l just get by._ Behaving like that deprives you of one of the essentials of being human: the capacity and the freedom to feel outraged. That freedom is indispensable, as is the political involvement that goes with it.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You'reborn with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something youassume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree towhich you resist is the degree to which you are free...

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.

Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine

And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.

We have never been outnumbered, we have only been out organized.

For the master__ tools will never dismantle the master__ house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.