#rig

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#creativity #invention #originality #writing #creativity

Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about stability constantly. It's their favorite word, next to 'power.' 'Gotta stabilize the political situation in Southeast Asia, gotta stabilize oil production and consumption, gotta stabilize student opposition to the government' and so forth. Stabilization to them means order, uniformity, control. And that's a half-witted and potentially genocidal misconception. No matter how thoroughly they control a system, disorder invariably leaks into it. Then the managers panic, rush to plug the leak and endeavor to tighten the controls. Therefore, totalitarianism grows in viciousness and scope. And the blind pity is, rigidity isn't the same as stability at all. True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#order #rigidity #stability #totalitarianism #totalitarianism

Just do what feels right. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#just #right

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

#engineering #ethics #genetic #genetic engineering #i

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions. ↗

— Gregory Nunn

#millions #place #right #right man #right place

I prefer writing originals. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#originals #prefer #writing

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances. ↗

— John Bolton

#against #being #certain #circumstances #defined

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself. ↗

— Rick Boucher

#i #lawful #manner #myself #practice

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission. ↗

— James Bovard

#easier #fear #frighten #government #ignorant

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#freedom #rights #education