We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.
Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.
There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.
If you are training leaders, because you need them, you are too late.
A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.
You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this. . then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game - you an look it up.
. . . if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.
I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace.
My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.
As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to have my ass handed to be in order to get it into gear for the upcoming Sydney Olmpics. Now, I'm on a mission.
South Africa needs a second liberation.
When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.
We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
I think it's been unfortunate, but it's happened, that since the Great Recession, the gains have all gone to the top. And we need to reverse that.
