#t

For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what is your due, to secure what you won in bloody battles on the barricades of Paris and Vienna, in the American Civil War, in the Russian Revolution. Your Paris ended with Petain and Laval, your Vienna with Hitler, your Russia with Stalin, and your America may well end in the rule of the Ku Klux Klan! You've been more successful in winning your freedom than in securing it for yourself and others. This I knew long ago. What I did not understand was why time and again, after fighting your way out of a swamp, you sank into a worse one. Then groping and cautiously looking about me, I gradually found out what has enslaved you: YOUR SLAVE DRIVER IS YOU YOURSELF. No one is to blame for your slavery but you yourself. No one else, I say! ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#dictatorship #emotional-plague #hitler #laval #liberty

Judge not, lest you be so fearful of judgment that you can hardly breath. ↗

— Paul Williams

#fearful #hardly #judge #judgment #lest

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline. ↗

— Alan Moore

#life

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever. ↗

— George Whitefield

#danger #forever #i #immortal #losing

Fashion is more about feel than science. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#fashion #feel #more #science #than

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#break #conventions #isolation #necessary #nice

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#commercial #editors #few #goals #goodness

I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers. ↗

— Zev Yaroslavsky

#both #disappointed #disturbed #dodgers #i

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe. ↗

— Peter Yarrow

#cure #deal #hatred #heal #identify

There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#i #i am #instance #ira #islamic