Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
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.
Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out.
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.