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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. J. Krishnamurti
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
J. Krishnamurti
This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now: . . . there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it’s like “Yeah, but, you know . . . ,” and “Who cares?” and “It’s all bullshit anyway.” David Foster Wallace
This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now: . . . there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it’s like “Yeah, but, you know . . . ,” and “Who cares?” and “It’s all bullshit anyway.”
David Foster Wallace
I think we risk becoming the best-informed society that has ever died of ignorance. Rubén Blades
I think we risk becoming the best-informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Rubén Blades
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. W. Edwards Deming
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. Rebecca West
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Rebecca West
We may pretend that we’re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. Terry Hands
We may pretend that we’re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
Terry Hands
You must begin by assuming responsibility. And you alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You must begin by assuming responsibility. And you alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.” Author unknown
“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.”
Author unknown
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights. Pearl S. Buck
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.
Pearl S. Buck
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused. . . . If one feels that there is nothing “we” can do — but who is that “we”? — and nothing “they” can do either — and who are “they”? — then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic. Susan Sontag
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused. . . . If one feels that there is nothing “we” can do — but who is that “we”? — and nothing “they” can do either — and who are “they”? — then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.
Susan Sontag
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else. Ivern Ball
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else.
Ivern Ball
Fight Apathy. Or Don’t. Graffito
Fight Apathy. Or Don’t.
Graffito
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. Noam Chomsky
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
It’s impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. Mignon McLaughlin
It’s impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
Mignon McLaughlin
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others. Eleanor Roosevelt
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. G.K. Chesterton
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
G.K. Chesterton
Revolution does not begin with a group. It begins from the heart. Shahla Khan
Revolution does not begin with a group. It begins from the heart.
Shahla Khan
Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts. . . . To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that. Albert Schweitzer
Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts. . . . To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that.
Albert Schweitzer
If we should be so lucky as to touch the lives of many, so be it. But if our lot is no more than the setting of a table, or the tending of a garden, or showing a child a path in a wood, our lives are no less worthy. Kent Nerburn
If we should be so lucky as to touch the lives of many, so be it. But if our lot is no more than the setting of a table, or the tending of a garden, or showing a child a path in a wood, our lives are no less worthy.
Kent Nerburn
Be joyful / though you have considered all the facts. Wendell Berry
Be joyful / though you have considered all the facts.
Wendell Berry
You throw an anchor into the future you want to build, and you pull yourself along by the chain. John O’Neal
You throw an anchor into the future you want to build, and you pull yourself along by the chain.
John O’Neal
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