Sometimes I think Umbridge had it right - Progress for the sake of progress really doesn’t do anyone any good.
November 2010
12 posts
“We are selfish based creatures crawling on this earth. But because we have brains we aspire to achieve something that is less than pure evil.”
—House
October 2010
29 posts
Why is it that the best writers are often the most broken? Is it because they have so much to tell…or so many things to warn against?
“A martyr would rather suffer death at the hands of an oppressor than renounce his beliefs. Killing yourself and innocent people to make a point is sick, twisted, brutal, dumb-ass murder. And let me leave you with this thought before I go searching for the apples that were rightfully mine: We don’t need martyrs right now. We need heroes. A hero would die for his country but he’d much rather live for it.”
—President Bartlet, West Wing (via justanotherwannabeclassic)
“Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions ……of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things…every one! So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, ‘Liberal, ’ as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, Senator, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.”
—Matt Santos, West Wing (via justanotherwannabeclassic)
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.”
—Benjamin Franklin
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The Student Sustainability Council’s “One Change” blog site - You’ll find stories and learning experiences of UK students as they make one change towards sustainability this semester.
Is it really worth it to embrace our higher brain capacity? To try to be MORE than selfish animals crawling across the Earth? This question defines the constant stream of thoughts in my mind…
It is often harder than it should be to be true to oneself - in my particular case, my lack of caring for social status or the norms that define our culture today. If I have one goal in the coming times, it is to do more to make myself happy… to return to my childhood happiness, which in my opinion is our true source of happiness.
In my case?… This means abandoning gaming and pointless hours spent in front of a screen and finding a good book - fact or fiction - and immersing myself, and my thoughts, within it.
“I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil.”
—Gottfried Leibniz
I’m really going to need my body to stop rebelling against me… especially when I don’t even know WHY I keep getting sick. Its never anything serious and only lasts a day or less, but it makes class impossible.
*Sigh*
The Ultimate Vice...
…is being unable to think with an open mind. Being unable to consider other theories, other possibilities. Not only does it condemn you to a life without the thrill of thoughtful discovery, but it also limits one’s ability to respect other views, at times bringing on a sense of paranoia.
I’ll take impatience anytime.
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”
—William O. Douglas
“Everyone is so afraid of discrimination that they basically ensure it by ensuring that we always view each other by our differences instead of our similarities.”
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“I would rather be chained to this rock than be the obedient servant of the gods.”
—Prometheus
