"Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality."

-- Judith Butler

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“We live in a technocratic culture. We worship at the altar of technology. Our lives are increasingly shaped by the machinations of the techies. It is vital, therefore, for all of us to think hard about the role the technical plays in our lives.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.”

Source : 'La mort du loup' (1838)
“A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.”
“In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.”

Source : Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”
“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”
“By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.”

Source : Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph
“If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.”
“I believe in the separation of church and planet.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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