Quotes of: Criminal-justice-system Keyword

The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behavior reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how...

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few exceptions, the immune system does not appear to recogn...

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

...the total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births. It is rediculous to think that two-thirds of American women have such lousy uteruses that they must be whipped into s...

Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that features ...

Burning Water

Deleuze and Guattari describe capitalism as a kind of dark potentiality which haunted all previous social systems. Capital, they argue, is the ‘unnamable Thing’, the abomination, which primitive and feudal societies ‘warded off in advance’. W...

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial bodies to FIRE or to WATER; and ... their followers have of late been distinguished by the fanciful...

Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth

Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, 'whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that they are laboring to dethrone;' but if they argue without reason, (which, in...

Reason the Only Oracle of Man or a Compendious System of Natural Religion

In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience and last for centuries into the future as an environment of human life, we have to embody three things: a respect for Eart...

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust

‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-c...

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World

The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at ...

Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems and the Human World

We love dogs and eat cows not because dogs and cows are fundamentally different--cows, like dogs, have feelings, preferences, and consciousness--but because our of them is different.

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning.

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men that made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a sy...

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid sys...

Weighed and Wanting

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Bribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

Caravan of Dreams

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

Citizen of the Galaxy

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?

City of God

She was partial to the tie. Not too long ago he did unspeakable things to her with that tie.

Cowboy Justice

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

The Dream Master

God was just. She held on to that knowledge and the hope that the day of justice would eventually arrive.

Danger in the Shadows