"Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment."

-- Rudolph Rummel

#Creativity Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Consistency Quotes

“Someone once said, 'That place is engulfed in darkness'- however that does in no way mean that there was never any light.”
“Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.”
“Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!”

Source : Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.281, Simon and Schuster
“What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.”
“Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love.”
“One murder makes a villian, millions a hero”
“One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones â€“ I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents”
“Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.”

Source : Interview with Heidi Raykeill, www.literarymama.com. April 2004.

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