"Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge."

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Source : "The media's lies poison our system" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2004.

Geoff Mulgan

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Justice Quotes

“Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical, and significantly different from that of a pig or horse. You may be impressed by how much human beings differ from one another, but if you were to look into the fine details of the molecules of which they are constructed, you would be astonished by their similarity.”
“If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?”

Source : Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.59, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
“The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.”
“It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.”
“PR got to be much bigger because of the emergence of digital media. Now we have hundreds of people who are, in a sense, manning embassies for Facebook and Twitter for brands. So the business in effect has morphed from pitching stories to traditional media, to working with bloggers, Twitter, Facebook and other social media, and then putting good content up on owned websites.”
“Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.”

Source : "Behind the Music: Gregorian Trap at En Noir Spring 2014" by Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. September 13, 2013.
“There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.”
“I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.”

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