A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.
People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.
Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.
My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus. It's that kind of morning.
You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
The eyes healed in a matter of a few days, as eyes heal quickly, mine just heal faster than anybody else. I was back in the strip club hours later rehabbing my eyes.
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.