Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
War – conflict where people are made to kill to live. Caused by less than 1% of a population – and experienced by the rest.
Zeitgeist – spirit of the age. No such thing. Imposition by hierarchy. People rebel – & are marginalised; or follow, chained.
Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.
We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.
Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he needs a ten-stone ankle weight. The audience, Arthur. The audience needs Watson as an intermediary, so that Holmes's thoughts might...
Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. "Watson" he says, "look up in the sky and tell me what you see." "I see millions of stars, Holmes," says Watson. "And what do you conclu...
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
The absence of theistic belief... { }
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.
The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
