"One mechanism of repression is the grand jury."

-- Michael Parenti

“There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.”
“I think it takes a very generous and tolerant non-famous partner to stick with the famous person, especially if s/he wasn't famous when they first got together. And add to it the fact that the Web makes it extremely easy to meet admirers... well, there are a lot of temptations to be ignored, or else embraced.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.”
“I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.”
“But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.”

Source : Ilya Kaminsky (2014). “Dancing in Odessa”, p.9, Arc Publications
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
“If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which was once so real starts to unwind. If things do not exist in their own right and are flickering rather than static, then we can no longer fear their ultimate demise. We may fear their instability, or their emptiness, but the looming threat of death starts to seem absurd. Things are constantly dying, we find. Or rather, they are constantly in flux, arising and passing away with each moment of consciousness.”
“We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.”

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