Talking about my fears to others feeds it.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
The good old days are now.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. . . Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. . . Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.
It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.
Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.