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.