To be enlightened.....

There is nothing to prove in this world

Except to find out for oneself.

Quote of the day.....

"Nothing inspires murderous mayhem in

human beings more reliably than

sexual repression."

----Psychology Today article 4/20/2010

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       Nothing inspires murderous mayhem in human beings more reliably than sexual repression. Denied food, water, or freedom of movement, people will get desperate and some may lash out at what they perceive as the source of their problems, albeit in a weakened state. But if expression of sexuality is thwarted, the human psyche tends to grow twisted into grotesque, enraged perversions of desire.

      Unfortunately, the distorted rage resulting from sexual repression rarely takes the form of rebellion against the people and institutions behind the repression. (If it did, perhaps we'd be reading of abused priests rather than priests as abusers.)  Instead, the rage is generally directed at helpless victims who are sacrificed to the sick gods of guilt, shame, and ignorant pride.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201004/sexual-repression-the-malady-considers-itself-the-remedy

Unbecoming of Moses....

When a state begins to interfere in most issues

Where there is no regulatory Role to play 

In its overreach where the human agency that overseas it

Increasingly begins to invest itself in 

the abuse and misuse of its institutional mechanisms 

that are invested with Vast Powers by its constituents 

making the society unstable and morally vulnerable 

in lacking critical insight for it to guide 

Its citizenry towards A right direction

Thus breeding incompetence, unaccountability,

Nepotism and corrupt profiteering

On a scale that undermines its own historical viability.

Quote of the Day...

As for adopting the ways which

the state has provided for remedying the evil,

I know not of such ways.

They take too much time, and

A man's life will be gone."

-- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)

About the Burglers....

The fear of burglars is not only 

the fear of being robbed, 

but  also the fear of a sudden and 

unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

---Elias canetti.

For they know not what they do......

The secrecies of a state is state of affairs 

where people that govern are allowed to 

persecute others recklessly without 

charging them of any real crime 

leading to the temptation of individuals 

acting as a network of racketeers 

in subverting  justice and administration 

in the name of protecting their citizenry

benefit and fulfill their private interests

undermine the fine and long standing laws 

and traditions of a nation state

making the innocent citizens suffer and 

pay a price for a flawed governance.

Quotes of the day.....

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action

and of being as comports with order and 

the rights of others,

the institutions render him truly a free man.

He is left to pursue his means of 

happiness in his own manner.

-- James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851)

 American Novelist 
Source: The American Democrat, 1838

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Those who won our independence believed that 

the final end of the State was to make men free 

to develop their faculties...

They valued liberty both as an end and as a means.

They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness 

and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Justice Louis D. Brandeis(1856-1941) 
US Supreme Court Justice

Source: Whitney v. California, 1927

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There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that 

the three things we crave most in life

happiness, freedom, and peace of mind

are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Peyton Conway March(1864-1955) US Army General, 

US Army Chief of Staff during the final year of WWI

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The great inlet by which a colour for 

oppression has entered into the world is by 

one man's pretending to determine 

concerning the happiness of another.

Edmund Burke(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, 

parliamentary orator, and political thinker .

Quote of the day.....

"He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands

the power to decide at each step, the course of his life,

and who lives in a society which does not block

the exercise of that power."

-- Salvador De Madariaga

(1886-1978 ), Spanish writer, diplomat, and historian,

noted for his service at the League of Nations

Source: New York Times, 29 January 1957

Quotes of the Day...

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands

in moments of comfort and convenience, but

where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than

sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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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.

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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but

a molder of consensus.

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I look to a day when people will not be judged

by the color of their skin,

but by the content of their character.

 
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of

this period of social transition was

not the strident clamor of the bad people,

but the appalling silence of the good people.

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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for

those who remain neutral in times of

 great moral conflict.

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A lie cannot live.

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The first question which the priest and

the Levite asked was:

'If I stop to help this man,

what will happen to me?' But...

the good Samaritan reversed the question:

'If I do not stop to help this man,

what will happen to him?'

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If we are to go forward,

we must go back and rediscover those precious values -

that all reality hinges on moral foundations and

that all reality has spiritual control.

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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

I can never be what I ought to be until

you are what you ought to be.

This is the interrelated structure of reality.

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There is nothing more tragic than to find

an individual bogged down

in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

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One who breaks an unjust 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 law.


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We will have to repent in this generation

not merely for the vitriolic words and

actions of the bad people,

but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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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.

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Pity may represent little more than

the impersonal concern

which prompts the mailing of a check,

but true sympathy is the personal concern

which demands the giving of one's soul.

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Philanthropy is commendable,

but it must not cause the philanthropist to

overlook the circumstances of economic injustice

which make philanthropy necessary.

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Everything that we see is a shadow

cast by that which we do not see.

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All progress is precarious, and

the solution of one problem brings us

face to face with another problem.             

Never forget that everything Hitler did

in genmany was Legal.

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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and

importance and should be undertaken

with painstaking excellence.

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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable

Every step towards the goal of justice requirs

sacrifice, suffering, and struggle

The tireless exertions and passionate concern of

dedicated individuals.

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The time is always right to do what is right.

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What ever your life's work is do it well.

A man should do his job so well that the living ,

the dead,and the unborn could do it better.

----- Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
  

Quote of the day......

"Those who won our independence believed

that the final end of the State was

to make men free to develop their faculties...

They valued liberty both as an end and as a means.

They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness

and courage to be the secret of liberty."

-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice

Source: Whitney v. California, 1927

Being and Becoming....

Be they self

Discover and experience everything A being does

Become they self in complete and

Even become free of They self

Do not worry what others do

With Themselves

For it will only lead to

Unbecoming of They self.

True Righteousness.....

This is the sum of all true righteousness

Deal with others as thou wouldst thyself be dealt by

Do nothing to thy neighbor which thou

wouldst not have him do to thee hereafter.

---- The Mahabharata,circa 800 BCE

Quote of the day......

"Truth does not become more true 

by virtue of the fact that 

the entire world agrees with it,

nor less so even if the whole world 

disagrees with it."

-- Maimonides(1135-1204) 

What Prevails......

In every organized activity

it is the Order / Ritual

that makes it superior to others

Yet in the nature of reality

"that is and Yet to be"

Order / Ritual is has little or

no superior disposition.

Quote of the Day......

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression

has entered into the world is by one man's pretending

to determine concerning the happiness of another.

-- Edmund Burke

Revenge.....

Revenge is the refuge of

Lost souls.

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In life One unleashes up on oneself in

no less measure than

What one unleashes up on others

who they claim to be their enemy.

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

"Neither the trappings of robes, 

Nor temples of stone, nor a fixed

Liturgy, nor an extensive literature or 

History is required to meet the test of beliefs 

Cognizable under the Constitution as religious. 

So far as our law is concerned, 

One person's religious beliefs held for 

One day are presumptively entitled to 

The same protection as the beliefs of

Millions which have been shared for

Thousands of years."

-- Judge Jack B. Weinstein(1921-) 
United States federal judge
Source: New York State, 1977

Quote of the day.......

"Whenever a single definite object is made

the supreme end of the State

be it the advantage of a class

the safety of the power of the country

the greatest happiness of the greatest number or

the support of any speculative idea

the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute.

-- Lord Acton
[John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton] (1834-1902).

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

Slumbering in every human being lies

An infinity of possibilities,

which one must not arouse in vain.

For it is terrible when the whole man

resonates with echoes and echoes,

none becoming real voice.

----Elias Canetti, 

Notes from Hempstead.

Power of Ignorance........

Unlike wisdom and intelligence

Power and ignorance often find their ways

By (physically) harming others.