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Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and when necessary fight back. Get down off the fence and lend a hand, grab a-hold, be a citizen - not a subject. ↗
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. ↗
My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil. ↗
An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense. ↗
Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that. ↗
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There’s a relentless wave of WTF coming out of Washington DC. ↗
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