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Post by Tamrin on Mar 7, 2014 11:21:32 GMT 10
Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, "Freedom." Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully
Let us sink such differences as nationality, religion, politics, and set our eyes eternally and forever toward the rising star of the industrial republic of labor
We [women] are the slaves of slaves. We are exploited more ruthlessly than men
Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is this power reduced to a science. Govern- ments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then
There is an innate spring of healthy action in every human being who has not been crushed and pinched by poverty and drudgery from before his birth, that impels him onward and upward
The involuntary aspiration born in man to make the most of one's self, to be loved and appreciated by one's fellow-beings, to "make the world better for having lived in it," will urge him on the nobler deeds than ever the sordid and selfish incentive of material gain has done
Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealthLucy Parsons, US anarchist labor organizer Co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies) (Died this day 1942) Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 7, 2014 11:22:20 GMT 10
I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses — to pay the bills
It is a fact that the origins of it all was to make an income. Then I began to like it very much. I was fascinated by each problem and the know- ledge that human beings hadn't solved this particular problem before
With fear, you must prevent not cure. Fear must not be allowed to take hold in the first place. If you are in a canoe never listen to the roar of the rapid ahead before you let go of the river bank. Just do it!
Most people know that to be healthy they should be doing various things and not doing various things, such as not smoking, but the trouble is that taking exercise is basically unpleasant for the vast majority of us. Eating healthily is also a hell of a bore
It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies
There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
There is of course, never any point in crying over spilt milk — the key is to learn from failures and then to keep goingSir Ranulph Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBEBritish soldier and explorer (Born this day 1944) Will I spend my life in a wheelchair? Tottering around my lounge, instead of running up mountain passes or navigating glaciers?
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 7, 2014 11:23:05 GMT 10
Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store
Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say
Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel... You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight — you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occur
I am saying you think she's good at heart because you like her and want her to be good at heart. It doesn't work that way. If you don't learn to see people as they are, you'll get hurt someday
I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that, my mother said. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder
I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance. Maybe my questions matter
To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our handsElizabeth MoonAmerican science fiction and fantasy author (Born this day 1945) “Normal” is a dryer setting
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 7, 2014 11:23:56 GMT 10
Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own
So the ability to pause and to not act on that first impulse has become a crucial emotional skill in modern lives
The good news is that the brain is plastic throughout life — it is shaped through repeated training and experience
The argument has long been made that we humans are by nature compassionate and empathic despite the occasional streak of meanness, but torrents of bad news throughout history have contradicted that claim, and little sound science has backed it. But try this thought experiment. Imagine the number of opportunities people around the world today might have to commit an antisocial act, from rape or murder to simple rudeness and dis- honesty. Make that number the bottom of a fraction. Now for the top value you put the number of such antisocial acts that will actually occur today. That ratio of potential to en- acted meanness holds at close to zero any day of the year. And if for the top value you put the number of benevolent acts performed in a given day, the ratio of kindness to cruelty will always be positive. (The news, however, comes to us as though that ratio was reversed.)
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection — or compassionate action
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deedsDaniel Jay GolemanUS author, psychologist and science journalist (Emotional Intelligence) (Born this day 1946) Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 7, 2014 11:28:43 GMT 10
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards — material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously
The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe
Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectoryWyndham LewisEnglish polemicist, novelist, essayist, critic and painter (Died this day 1957) I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 8, 2014 6:40:27 GMT 10
Saturday’s Quotes:A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensionsOliver Wendell Holmes Jr.US Supreme Court justice (Born this day 1841) To live is to function; that is all there is to living
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 8, 2014 6:41:04 GMT 10
Come along inside ... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place
The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent — I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past — they never do; they're too busy
'No, not one little song,' replied the Rat firmly, though his heart bled as he noticed the trem- bling lip of the poor disappointed Toad. 'It's no good, Toady; you know well that your songs are all conceit and boasting and vanity; and your speeches are all self-praise and — and — well, and gross exaggeration and — and — ' 'And gas,' put in the Badger, in his common way
The clever men at Oxford … know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad!
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working
There is nothing absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boatsKenneth GrahameScottish author ( The Wind in the Willows) (Born this day 1859) As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 8, 2014 6:41:47 GMT 10
1 of 2:The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be goodHenry Ward BeecherAmerican clergyman and social reformer (Died this day 1887) Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 8, 2014 6:42:20 GMT 10
2 of 2:The most dangerous people are the ignorant
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we areHenry Ward Beecher(Died this day 1887) A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 8, 2014 6:43:08 GMT 10
Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind
They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles
It is easier to believe than to doubt
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottledGene FowlerAmerican journalist, author and dramatist (Born this day 1890) Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead
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