Quote of the day....

If language is not correct,

then what is said is not what is meant;

If what is said is not what is meant,

then what must be done remains undone;

If this remains undone,

morals and art will deteriorate;

If justice goes astray,

the people will stand about in 

helpless confusion.

Hence there must be 

no arbitrariness in what is said.

This matters above everything.

-- Confucius
[Kung Fu-tse] (551-479 B.C.)

Manufacturing Consent.......

There are no true consistencies...

In memory of Stephen Hawking.....

Remember to look up at the stars and 

not down at your feet.

Try to make sense of what you see and 

about what makes the universe exist. 

Be curious. 

And however difficult life may seem, 

there is always something you can do, 

and succeed at. 

It matters that you don’t just give up.

--Stephen Hawking, 
As he celebrated his 70th birthday.

quote of the day......

A single idea, if it is right, 

saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

-- Jacques Maritain
(1882-1973) French Catholic philosopher

Quote of the day.....

A fact which is not denied but 

whose truths are rationalized  

loses its objective base. 

Quote of the day.....

I see that there are many young people here; 

as an old man, a little advice... 

Life can set us a lot of snares, a lot of bumps, 

we can fail a thousand times, in life, in love, 

in the social struggle, but if we search for it 

we'll have the strength to get up again and start over. 

The most beautiful thing about the day is that it dawns. 

There is always a dawn after the night has passed. 

Don't forget it, kids. 

The only losers are the ones who stop fighting.

--José_Mujica. 40th President of Uruguay.
On Sunday 7 December 2014.During a talk at 
the 28th Guadalajara International Book Fair (Mexico).

Quote of the day....

Only free men are.....

thoroughly grateful 

one to another.

-- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

Quote of the day.....

In the general course of human nature, 

A power over a man's subsistence amounts to 

a power over his will.

-- Alexander Hamilton(1757-1804) 
Secretary of the Treasury
Source: Federalist Paper 79.

Quote of the day.....

It is maintained that a society is free only 

when dissenting minorities have room to 

throw their weight around. 

As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels 

free only when it can impose its will on the majority: 

what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

-- Eric Hoffer. (1902-1983) American author.
Philosopher. Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Quote of the day.....

The question is not, Can they reason? nor

Can they talk? but,

Can they suffer?

-- Jermy Bentham.

What matters........

What matters is....

 to find right kind of relationship 

with one another... 

Actually not theoretically and

if that relationship is corrupt, 

dishonest and exploiting 

then in  that relationship there is corruption.... 

Therefore in the world ....

corruption comes in to being.

while we live in conflict 

from the moment..... 

we are born till we die.

---J.Krishnamurthy.

How are we doing.....?

How are you doing ? 

Is probably a question....

Most of us never ask of a dog or pig or 

a bird or any animal species

One comes across in one's life...

But if one had asked the same of 

A fellow human being..... 

Then one is most probably doing it so 

Out of a superficial routine.

Quote of the day.....

Good comes in the form of confession.

-- Dostoevsky.
As quoted by Robert Bresson.

The desire to rule over others.......

Off all the human emotions 

The most irrational one is....

The desire to rule over others.

Quote of the day.....

You are not only responsible for what you say, 

but also for what you do not say.

 — Martin Luther.

Quote of the day.....

Especially in false moralistic societies,

 where religious bigotry is on the helm,

which is world over,

the moral sanctimony is so cruel,

it instead breeds evil,

which says who is next than humanity or compassion

which is embedded in forgiving and

while there are no apparent sanctions 

for one's short coming,

a person will have room to muster enough courage and 

call up on humility ,

which in turn paves a path for virtue to admitting to 

ones folly and short coming ,

since there is no judgement and consequently

one does not have fear about being shamed or 

face abuse from others

but a possibility to become a better human 

on one's own accord.

When a society in its wisdom fails...

individual turn away inwardly fearing

their own inadequacies known to the world 

that would invite abuse and judgement.

So people by and large wear masks of false niceties,

while fearing for their lives ,

conspiring against their own kind,

with out any real faith what so ever,

with a religious affiliation or with out.

__ Brian Williams.

Quote of the day......

"Screaming at each other has never caused change,"

Sure, sometimes major protests and rioting 

in the streets causes change, 

but when it's people one-on-one? 

Having a screaming competition in that setting 

never changes minds. 

So we need to try and understand each other.

-- Sarah Silverman.

Indignities of Oppressor and the Oppressed...........

The oppressor and the oppressed must

both be liberated.

--- Nelson Mandela.
Long walk to freedom.(Mar 28th, 2016)

Quote of the day......

The true measure of a man

is how he treats someone

who can do him absolutely no good.

-- Dr. Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)

Quote of the day....

The question is not,

Can they reason? nor

Can they talk? but,

Can they suffer?

-- Jeremy Bentham.

Raise of the machine........

Bakunin has sometimes been called 

the first theorist of the "new class", meaning 

that a 'class' of intellectuals and bureaucrats 

running the state in the name of the people or 

the proletariat – 

but in reality in their own interests alone. 

Bakunin argued that the "State has always been 

the patrimony of  some privileged class: 

a priestly class, an aristocratic class, a bourgeois class. 

And finally, when all the other classes have 

exhausted themselves, ....

the State then becomes the patrimony of 

the bureaucratic class and then falls—or

if you will, rises—to the position of a machine.

To be......

(All)  Knowledge is ( Omni ) present..... 

Irrespective of an individual's disposition 

In any given world.

Gossip.............

Gossip is communal....

It is an affliction of

The like minded stereotypes.

Between You and Me.....

Between you and me 

You and I know the truth.....

But I have my people behind me.

---Mr. Anonymous.

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I also took advantage of the fact that 

I was widely admired in my and their community, 

which disabled them from sharing their story and 

brought hardship to them when they tried because 

people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it. 

I didn’t think that I was doing any of that 

because my position allowed me not to think about it.

---Louis C.K.

Quote of the day.......

The study of history is a powerful antidote 

to contemporary arrogance. 

It is humbling to discover how many of 

our glib assumptions, 

which seem to us novel and plausible, 

have been tested before, 

not once but many times and in innumerable guises; 

and discovered to be, 

at great human cost, 

wholly false.

-- Paul Johnson.

Real world........

The real world is a place where it's hard sometimes 

to find people who will listen with an attitude 

that they might actually be convinced of something,

Instead, what happens in most of the real world is 

that people don't listen at all.


They aren't looking to actually learn anything 

about you or about what you think. 

It's a place where people take sides 

rather than trying to understand - 

are they still on the right side? 


They care mostly about their side winning.


---FBI Director James Comey. 2017
Convocation speech at Howard university.

No more concentration camps........

I tried to look away,

but he would hold my face,” she said.

So I was forced to look into his eyes.

And I felt disgust and shame, and

like nobody would ever think of me as being

clean again after being this close to the devil.

His energy was so sinister.

--- Selma blair.

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You have to get it all out in the open and

in the light so that we can really understand

how pervasive this is,” McAdams said.

I think we almost have to exhaust ourselves

sharing our experiences before

the rebuilding can begin.

And hopefully...........

we never slip back into this darkness again.


----Rachel Mc Adams.

The Realometer......

The realometer, that could cut through 

the" mud and slush of opinion " and

prejudice, and tradition......

to a Hard bottom.

----Henri David Thoreau.

In truth.......

Truth is....

An overarching compassion.

Quote of the day......“I did it. I got there, but not without a price.....

Maroney was one of the “Fierce Five” 

that won gold at the 2012 London Olympics; 

she also won silver..... 

in the individual vault event. 

In her letter, Maroney spoke of how 

the Olympics had been her dream 

since she was a child, 

watching the 2004 Games as an 8-year-old.

“From the outside looking in,

 it’s an amazing story,” Maroney wrote. 

“I did it. I got there, 

but not without a price.

-----------------

[On October 18, 2017, Maroney alleged that 

USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar 

repeatedly molested her, starting when 

she was 13 years old until her retirement 

from the sport in 2016.]

Man Made..............

There is so much to 

Man made reality

It always fails to 

Live up to....... 

Fair scrutiny.

Existential Burden...........

One of the most difficult existential burden is.... 

To bear witness of human folly.

Quote of the day.....

If truth were to become a lost cause

not just families ...... even societies

pay the price.

----Hrithik Roshan.

Bollywood actor.

Honourable............

Honor is theirs........ 

Who own responsibility for 

Their actions.

To be evil.......

To be evil is.... 

An incurable disease.

Quote of the day.....

Force (is) the vital principle and

immediate parent of despotism.

-- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826), 
US Founding Father, 3rd US President.
drafted the Declaration of Independence. 

Quote of the day............

Service to humanity is service to God.

Diversity.........

In reality there are as many religions 

as there are individuals.

--M.K.Gandhi.

El Dorado.........

God's world is..... 

Free world.

Virtue of the Lost souls.........

All hate is ill founded.......

It is the virtue of the Lost souls.

Quote of the day...............

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake

believed that to be free to choose, 

and not to be chosen for,

is an unalienable ingredient in 

what makes human beings human.

-- Isaiah Berlin(1909-1997)
Source: Five Essays on Liberty, 1969

raison d'etre.................

It matters little to the evil one's 

Who their victims are.

Causality..........

Our deceptions in eventuality are....... 

Our realities.

Quote of the day....................

The principle that the end justifies 

the means is in individualist ethics 

regarded as the denial of all morals.

In collectivist ethics.......... 

it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

-- Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), 
Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
Source: The Road to Serfdom (1944)

Quote of the day...........

It is always easier to tell people what to do 

than to find out what is happening...

-- Martin Pawley.

To stand up for Oneself......Is to stand up for others......

By allowing one self to be afraid of bullies

One turns One-self in to....

A coward.

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In memory of the little ones
that became unwitting victims of
false consciousness.....

Limits of knowledge.......

When knowledge personifies as Obstructionist

It assumes being unethical and immoral.

Be / Cause......

As such there is no Cause...

All Cause is false Cause.

Quote of the day......

Human nature itself is evermore 

an advocate for liberty. 

There is also in human nature 

a resentment of injury, and 

indignation against wrong. 

A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. 

These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"… 

If the people are capable of understanding, 

seeing and feeling the differences 

between true and false, 

right and wrong, 

virtue and vice, 

to what better principle can 

the friends of mankind apply 

than to the sense of this difference?

-- John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: the Novanglus, 1775

Quote of the day......

I am very sure that any man of 

common understanding may, 

by culture, care, attention, and labor, 

make himself what- ever he pleases, 

except a great poet.

-- Philip Stanhope
4th Earl of Chesterfield.

Life & Death.............

Some time life is....... 

More cruel then Death.

Quote of the day.....Scandalous.

"They say,

You really need a high level of proof 

to change recomondations,

which is ironic because 

they never had a high level of proof 

to set them."

--- Walter Willet.

Harvard Epidemiologist. 

Truth amongst us........

If we have truth amongst us..... 

There would be only One truth /One story 

As all of Our Truths and Stories 

Become One.....

Quote of the day....

It does not require many words 

To speak the truth.

-- Chief Joseph
(1840-1904) Chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain 
(Wallowa) band of Nez Perce Indians

Quote of the day......

Glenn Greenwald Retweeted
 bart‏ @bart_smith  Mar 19

It's astounding how anyone could be 

arguing with a nazi and 

lose the moral high ground.

Quote of the day......

 Prosecutors are not obligated 

to protect their convictions, 

“They’re obligated to seek the truth. 

And do justice.”

--- Cuyahoga County Judge Mike Donnelly.

One's standing.......

If one stands for nothing

Then......

One is not even standing up

For one self.

Quote of the day.....

If honor be your clothing, 

the suit will last a lifetime;

but if clothing be your honor, 

it will soon be worn threadbare.

-- William D. Arnot (1808–1875)
 Scottish preacher and theological writer.

Quote of the day....

Freedom from something is not enough. 

It should also be freedom for something. 

Freedom is not safety but opportunity. 

Freedom ought to be a means to enable 

the press to serve the proper functions of 

communication in a free society.

-- Zechariah Chaffee, Jr.
(1865-1957)
Source: Nieman Reports, April 1948

Techno switch.....

Human evolution through technology is 

another myth.

Myth / co / pithecus.....

The need for myth building is rooted in 

social & culturally antiquated self moorings.

quote of the day.....

If liberty means anything at all, 

it means the right to tell people 

what they do not want to hear.

-- George Orwell. [Eric Arthur Blair]
British author.
Source: Animal Farm 1945

Homage ....

I for one does not have true privilege 

To judge the high or low

For they both exist 

In the realm of God's creation. 

Quote of the day......

Joan Walsh@joanwalsh 
Joan Walsh Retweeted Bernie Sanders....

Anytime you say "but" after an important declaration, 

clarification or apology,

you're saying the opposite in what follows.

https://twitter.com/joanwalsh/status/801283907308126208

Quote of the day....

That frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, 

and a firm adherence to justice, moderation, 

temperance,industry and frugality, 

are absolutely necessary to  preserve 

the blessings of liberty, 

and keep government free. 

The people ought, therefore, 

to pay particular attention to these points, 

in the choice of officers and representatives, 

and  have a right to exact a due 

and constant regard to them, 

from their legislators and magistrates, 

in the making and executing such laws as are 

necessary for the good government of the State.

-- Vermont Declaration of Rights
Source: Article 16

Quote of the day.........

The fate of the country does not depend on 

how you vote at the polls --

the worst man is as strong as 

the best at that game;

it does not depend on what kind of paper

you drop into the ballot-box once a year,

but on what kind of man 

you drop from your chamber

into the street every morning.

-- Henry David Thoreau.
(1817-1862) American author.
Source: Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)

Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4

Look at the proud!

their spirit is not right in them,

but the righteous live by their faith........


It is alright if one has little respect for 

Other's virtues....

but should be aware of one's own 

short comings.

Quote of the day.....

[There can be no] rational administration of government

when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

-- Polybius
(ca. 203-120 BC,) Greek historian

Quote of the day.....

Integrity is doing the right thing, 

even if nobody is watching.

-- Jim Stovall
(1958-) American writer, blind

Quote of the day......

Law never made men a whit more just.

-- Henry David Thoreau.

Quote of the day......

If you tell the truth, 

you don't have to remember anything.

-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)

Quote of the day...........

The road to tyranny, we must remember,

begins with the destruction of the truth.

-- Bill Clinton. 42nd US President
Source: speech at the University of Connecticut, 
Oct 15, 1997.

Quote of the day..........

There can be no public or private virtue

unless the foundation of action is 

the practice of truth.

-- George Jacob Holyoake
(1817-1906) English secularist

Quote of the day..........

There can be no public or private virtue

unless the foundation of action is 

the practice of truth.

-- George Jacob Holyoake
(1817-1906) English secularist

Quote of the day..........

There can be no public or private virtue

unless the foundation of action is 

the practice of truth.

-- George Jacob Holyoake
(1817-1906) English secularist

Quote of the day......

Nothing astonishes men so much as

common sense and plain dealing.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
Source: Essays, 1841

Quote of the day.....

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

-- Harold J. Laski
(1893-1950)
Source: A Grammar of Politics, 1925

Quote of the day.....

Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that,

in our endeavour consciously to shape our future

in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact

unwittingly produce the very opposite of

what we have been striving for?

-- Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974

Quote of the day......

It is discouraging to think...

how many people are shocked by honesty

and how few by deceit.

-- Noel Coward
(1899-1973) British playwright

Higher Education......

One begins embrace false education 

By virtue of once privilege and 

Self arrogance....

Quote of the day......

O, what a tangled web we weave,

when first we practice to deceive!

-- Sir Walter Scott. 1st Baronet, FRSE (1771-1832) 
Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet
Source:  "Marmion", Canto VI, Stanza 17