Sweet Burden

Why is love rich beyond all other possible human experiences and a sweet burden to those seized in its grasp? Because we become what we love and yet remain ourselves.
--Martin Heidegger

AR-15

The pro AR-15 argument comes down to "preventing state tyranny." In other words, "I need an AR-15 because one day I might have to mow down a bunch of U.S. soldiers. Don't get me wrong, I support the troops. I just want to be ready to murder as many as possible if necessary."
--Dana Gould

Profound

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.
--Clay Shirky

Mind

The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
--Charles Darwin

The Future

Anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror.
--Albert Einstein (1939)

Expose

If an evil genius had created the climate crisis, he could not have designed it better to expose the weaknesses of the human intellect. The cost/benefit relationship discourages a sustained campaign to correct the problem, while the negative character of success also weakens the resolve needed to achieve our goals.
--James Lee

Foster

Agony and ecstasy seems to foster addiction; all things in moderation does not.
--David C. Hester

Quiet

I wanted to be quiet in a nonquiet situation.
--John Cage

Revolution

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
--Henry Ford

More Than

Is it possible that we love our guns more than our children?
--Louis James Iocca (January 2011)

Touch

We have to touch people.
--Dr. Jacob Bronowski

Fear

Fundamentalism is the product of fear, not hatred. It is the ugly creed of those who feel sidelined by the brave new world of postmodernity.
--Terry Eagleton

Moral

Wealth is no proof of moral character; nor poverty of the want of it. On the contrary, wealth is often the presumptive evidence of dishonesty; and poverty the negative evidence of innocence.
--Thomas Paine (Dissertation on the First Principles of Government; 1795)

Truth

When it comes to distorting the truth in the Internet age, the flood is more effective than the dam.
--Garry Kasparov

Capitalist

The first sentence in text books about a capitalist economy should read: Stock prices fall when workers wages rise. And the second: The rest of this book attempts to convince you this is the best economic system possible.
--Arthur T. Himmelman

Criminal

They now seem more like a criminal organization, an auxiliary of the Russian mafia, than a political party.
--Chris Swoyer

Stupidity

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.
--Sidney Hook

Listening

More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another.
--Mr. (Fred) Rogers

Promise

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
--Thornton Wilder