The only thing we should want power over is ourself

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. – James F. Byrnes

Dick Cheney - Wal-Mart Greeter

Humility is a good thing.

In all this I feel a grave danger, the danger of what might be called cosmic impiety. The concept of ‘truth’ as something dependent upon facts largely outside human control has been one of the ways in which philosophy hitherto has inculcated the necessary element of humility. When this check upon pride is removed, a further step is taken on the road towards a certain kind of madness… the intoxication of power to which modern man, whether philosophers or not, are prone. I am persuaded that this intoxication is the greatest danger of our time and that any philosophy which, however unintentionally, contributes to it is increasing the danger of vast social disaster. – Bertrand Russell

Why you gotta act like you know, when you don't know. It's okay, if you don't know everything.

Well, when you're good at something, stick with it

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. – Omar N. Bradley

We're all going to fry like Twinkies unless we repent

The split between the Christian left and the Christian right could be, in part, that some people see tolerance and acceptance as part of their nobler selves; others feel that they can best honor God by working to change society and its laws to conform to the ethic of divinity, even if that means imposing religious laws on people of other faiths – Jonathan Haidt

Nothing's gonna change my world...

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. – Marian Wright Edelman

Mmmm... that's good truth

What you’re chewing on’s the truth and that’s the hardest thing to wash down with a glass of lemonade – XTC, The Ugly Underneath

 

Wanted: a few more smart people

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. - H. L. Mencken

 

Box office

Although Pearl Harbor cost approximately US$132 million to film and promote, it grossed a relatively modest US$200 million at the domestic box office, but it soon earned a respectable US$450 million worldwide.^[2] The film was ranked the seventh highest-earning picture of 2001.

Revolution!! (against yourself)

If ever I would stop thinking about music and politics
I would tell you that the personal revolution
is far more difficult
and the first step in any revolution – Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

But if we had the information, we might have to think for ourselves.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people. – Former US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black 

[bolded words mine]

 

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be writers

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. – Albert Camus

I believe the children are our future...

Finding yourself

The true vocation of man is to find his way to himself. - Hermann Hesse

If ever I would stop thinking about music and politics...

Strict Ideology = Bad; Thinking for Yourself = good

All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life. – Jean Goss

Politics

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx