#observation

The Dark Ages are alive and secretly thriving like a herpes infection among us. ↗

— Juliette Fay

#observations-on-life #unexpected-humor #unexpected-life #wry #age

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that — either now or in the uncertain future — patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable." [The Eternal Value of Privacy, May 18, 2006] ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#freedom #individuality #liberty #observation #privacy

Travel is the physical move from point A to point B that could be very expensive and it could contain a questionable experience. ↗

— Boris Zubry

#experience

WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,' And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns and duns, And thresh and ply; And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe, And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#observation #weather #dreams

She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food. ↗

— Martin Amis

#observational #food

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. ↗

— Bergen Evans

#freedom

I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#friendship

I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations. ↗

— Judith Anderson

#aspects #express #i #i am #inspired

When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#kids #observational-comedy #humor