You’re the love of my life, and the life of my love
— Joe Biden to his wife Jill
It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit
— Eartha Kitt
Now it isn’t easy to stand up for truth and for justice. Sometimes it means being frustrated. When you tell the truth and take a stand, sometimes it means that you will walk the streets with a burdened heart. Sometimes it means losing a job…means being abused and scorned. It may mean having a seven, eight year old child asking a daddy, “Why do you have to go to jail so much?” And I have long since learned that being a follower of Jesus Christ means taking up the cross. My Bible tells me that Good Friday comes before Easter. Before the crown we wear, there is the cross that we must bear. Let us bear it! Bear it for truth, bear it for justice, bear it for peace! Let us go out this morning with that determination.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
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Professor Bernardo de la Paz from The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
(via self-ownership)
…The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government…for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Michael Moore: Do you know that on the day of the Columbine massacre, the US dropped more bombs on Kosovo than any other day?
Marilyn Manson: I do know that, and I think that’s really ironic, that nobody said ‘Well maybe the President had an influence on this violent behavior’. Because that’s not the way the media wants to take it and spin it, and turn it into fear, because then you’re watching television, you’re watching the news, you’re being pumped full of fear, there’s floods, there’s AIDS, there’s murder, cut to commercial, buy the Acura, buy the Colgate, if you have bad breath they’re not going to talk to you, if you have pimples, the girl’s not going to fuck you, and it’s just this campaign of fear, and consumption, and that’s what I think it’s all based on, the whole idea of ‘keep everyone afraid, and they’ll consume.’
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
alexholzbach:
“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.”
-Thomas Jefferson (via libertyidaho)
so ironic that i just blogged about the unjust law there is at his monument.
Jefferson is great.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
