People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
- Marian Wright Edelman
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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
I know that whatever is published in a book — correct or incorrect — will most certainly become public knowledge. This is why so many wrong ideas are popular among people.- Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides, also known as "the Rambam"), in Letter on Martyrdom (translation by Abraham Halkin). The Rambam lived in the 12th century: surely in these days he would add, whatever is published in newspapers and in magazines and on the Web,...
We see only what we know.
The bees build in the crevices
Of loosening masonry, and there
The mother birds bring grubs and flies.
My wall is loosening; honey-bees,
Come build in the empty house of the stare.
We are closed in, and the key is turned
On our uncertainty; somewhere
A man is killed or a house burned.
Yet no clear fact to be discerned:
Come build in the empty house of the stare.
A barricade of stone or of wood
Some fourteen days of civil war
Last night they trundled down the road
That dead young soldier in his blood:
Come build in the empty nest of the stare.
We have fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart's grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love; O honey-bees,
Come build in the empty house of the stare.
[. . .] we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:Keith Olbermann, "Beginning of the end of America", special commentary on Countdown (MSNBC)
A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.
Why do you pity the fool? "You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool," Mr. T explained. "You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up."
I have generalized this with a catchy acronym-aphorism — CITOKATE ... or... Criticism is the Only Known Antidote to Error. A practicing scientist knows this, in his or her bones, even as the Cro Magnon ego inevitably tugs in the other direction, murmuring to each of us that we are 100% correct and that critics are all vile fools.David Brin
America’s moral integrity was the single most important weapon my platoon had on the streets of Iraq. It saved innumerable lives, encouraged cooperation with our allies and deterred Iraqis from joining the growing insurgency.
But those days are over.
My personal favorite poll number is the President’s 2 percent approval rating among blacks. Which is within the margin of error. Which leads to all sorts of mind-boggling possibilities, scientifically: Is it possible that more black people hate the President than are actually alive today? Do you think black ghosts are coming back to hate him? Do you think they can read black sonograms at this point? Are doctors saying, “We don’t know if this is a boy or a girl, but we know this baby hates George W. Bush”?Stephanie Miller, in an interview with Matthew Rothschild in The Progressive