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.

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[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.