A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine and destroy popular movements whenever possible.
To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them.
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.
To me, the coolest are the terminally uncool.
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta. '