I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
“Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” Rev. Martin Luther King, 4 April 1967
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by mean of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Justice Louis O. Brandeis (Olmstead vs. United States)
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(via sabbatical)
Update: As The Atlantic points out, the first line was not written by King.
Source: sabbatical
As a people, our ideal is to have a future, and so long as this is so we shall never have a present.
Alan Watts
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.
Jeff Bezos, Princeton University, 2010 Baccalaureate remarks
You’re a thousand times more likely to die because of what some urban banker did in 2008 than from what some Afghan-based terrorist did in 2001.
In Toronto the Good, we saw a law passed and enforced that was more anti-democratic than the War Measures Act. And we saw more people arrested than took place during the October Crisis in Quebec forty years ago — more than 500 at last count.
Steve Paikin, host of TVO’s The Agenda
This weekend, I saw the city in which I’ve lived for over seven years transformed into something unrecognizable. I’m still processing it all, waiting for a cooler head to prevail, but there’s no mistaking that Steve is right. Democracy in Canada has suffered a tremendous blow.
Source: tvo.org
The financial panic of 2008 was horrible, but it did have one good result: the nation began its first interesting conversation about economics in more than 25 years.
Source: changethis.com
The resistance grows in strength as we get closer to shipping, as we get closer to an insight, as we get closer to the truth of what we really want. That’s because the lizard [brain] hates change and achievement and risk.
Seth Godin, Quieting the lizard brain
These and other insights from Linchpin, Godin’s new book. It’s outstanding.
Source: sethgodin.typepad.com
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
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