I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the American Constitution.
I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.
Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.
Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it. ' And immediately the contact is lost.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
I have been a photographer all my life. . . . and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more and more apparent is that I am simply only as good as my next photograph. That's the one that counts the most. . . . For this reason I find it a delight to face a new day, and to develop that new roll of film. It's a great way to live.
The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.