All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works. )
Control healthcare and you control the people
True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!
I just wanted to be sure of you.
I was always interested in science, truth, goodness and fairness. I have always been strongly individualistic and merit-oriented. This is probably because I was adopted and thus have always tended to cavalierly dismiss the importance of "blood ties" and any inherited or "unearned" group characteristics.
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.