This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.
Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.
One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia.
If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
