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Post by Tamrin on Jan 15, 2014 7:35:26 GMT 10
1 of 2:A right delayed is a right denied
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptiveRev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.American civil rights leader (Born this day 1929) I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 15, 2014 7:36:06 GMT 10
2 of 2:Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary
No amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries …Yet a price can be placed on unpaid wages. The ancient common law has always provided a remedy for the appropriation of a the labor of one human being by another. This law should be made to apply for American Negroes. The payment should be in the form of a mass- ive program by the government of special, compensatory measures which could be regarded as a settlement in accordance with the accepted practice of common law
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world betterRev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.(Born this day 1929) We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 15, 2014 7:38:55 GMT 10
Offense is the essence of air power
As a nation we were not prepared for World War II. Yes, we won the war, but at a terrific cost in lives, human suffering, and material, and at times the margin was narrow History alone can reveal how many turning points there were, how many times we were near losing, and how our enemies’ mistakes pulled us through. In the flush of victory, some like to forget these unpalatable truths
Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate
Sacrifice some quality to get sufficient quantity to supply all fighting units. Never follow the mirage, looking for the perfect airplane, to a point where fighting squadrons are deficient in numbers of fighting planes
A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security
Integrity: This covers a very wide field. To touch upon one or two — it means, for example, maintaining the courage of one's convictions. By no means should this be confused with stubborn thinking. Stubborn thinking is as outmoded as the ox cart. Its exact opposite, resilient thinking, is Today's Must: a man must be able to accommodate his thinking quickly and accurately to his rapidly changing world; nevertheless, it must be his thinking, - not someone else's
Personal integrity also means moral integrity. Regardless of what appear to be some superficial ideas of present-day conduct, fundamentally, — today as always —, the man who is genuinely respected is the man who keeps his moral integrity sound; who is trustworthy in every respect. To be successful, a man must trust others; and a man cannot trust others, who does not trust himselfBro. Henry Harvey “Hap” ArnoldUS 5 Star General (Army & Air Force) (Died this day 1950) Our Air Force belongs to those who come from ranks of labor, manage- ment, the farms, the stores, the professions and colleges and legislative halls … Air Power will always be the business of every American citizen
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 15, 2014 7:39:42 GMT 10
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology
Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet
You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond
If anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken
The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news — car crashes, domestic violence — that we should worry
It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselvesBruce SchneierAmerican cryptographer, computer security specialist and writer ( Secrets & Lies) (Born this day 1963) Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2014 6:32:02 GMT 10
Thursday’s Quotes:My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to executeBro. Edward GibbonBritish historian ( Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire) (Died this day 1794) Mon Dieu, Mon Dieu!(last words)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2014 6:33:24 GMT 10
It is by character and not by intellect the world is won
If every man did the little he could — what a different world!
If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation
Hopeless, filthy, degraded, superstitious with the craven superstition which made them the easy prey of their unscrupulous clergy and left them wholly sensual and stupid; as animals, without the animals' instinctive joy of life and fearless- ness of the morrow ; with no ambitions for themselves or the children who turned to curse them for having brought them into such a world; with no time to dream or love, no time for the tenderness which makes life, life indeed — they toiled for a few cruel years because they feared to die, and died because they feared to liveStephen G. Tallentyre (nom de plume of Evelyn Beatrice Hall)English writer ( The Friends of Voltaire) (Born this day 1868) I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it(“Because of quote marks around the original publication of these words, they are often attributed to Voltaire, though Hall was not actually quoting him but summarizing his attitude with the expression”)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2014 6:34:16 GMT 10
A promise made is a debt unpaid
Avoid extremes: be moderate in saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait will win an easy ending
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out — it's the grain of sand in your shoe
I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new
When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay, I hope that it won't be hell-fire, as some of the parsons say. And I hope that it won't be heaven, with some of the parsons I've met — All I want is just quiet, just to rest and forgetBro. Robert ServiceBritish-born Canadian poet ( Cremation of Sam McGee) (Born this day 1874) Master, I've filled my contract, wrought in Thy many lands; Not by my sins wilt Thou judge me, but by the work of my hands. Master, I've done Thy bidding, and the light is low in the west, And the long, long shift is over — Master, I've earned it — Rest
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2014 6:37:20 GMT 10
Love, is always insufficient, always a lie
By their talk to each other they understood that they shared a belief in the brother- hood of the desolate; yet in the scars of their eyes they confirmed that no such fraternity had ever existed, that the only brotherhood they belonged to was the one that asked the enduring question: How do I get through the next twenty minutes?
They feared drys, cops, jailers, bosses, moralists, crazies, truth-tellers, and one another. They loved storytellers, liars, whores, fighters, singers, collie dogs that wagged their tails, and generous bandits
Francis felt healthy and he liked it. It's too bad he didn't feel healthy when he drank. He felt good then but not healthy, especially not in the morning, or when he woke up in the middle of the night, say. Sometimes he felt dead
People don't know what price people paid to make America human. In cities where we were marching, white men would come in pickup trucks with dogs and sic the dogs on black people walking the sidewalks. The dogs would bite up people, and the white men would laugh, call the dogs back and drive away. You've never seen such meanness like the meanness we went through
There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot
My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing, been nothingWilliam KennedyAmerican writer and investigative journalist (Born this day 1928) Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2014 6:39:25 GMT 10
The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people
I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can antici- pate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated
I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them
There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being
As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself
The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future(last diary entry) Dian FosseyAmerican primatologist & conservationist ( Gorillas in the Mist) (Born this day 1932) No one loved gorillas more(on her gravestone)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2014 6:41:07 GMT 10
We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the king- dom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questionsSusan SontagUS essayist, cultural theorist and political activist (Born this day 1933) Cogito ergo boom
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