no. 518

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'" 

Marie Howe (h/t Joseph Fasano)

Language activates an idea and a circuitry in your brain. And the result of that is every time a circuit is activated, its synapses get stronger. So the more you hear certain things, even if you just hear and understand them, the circuitry gets stronger.

From a FB Post by George Lakoff

http://www.dw.com/en/dont-retweet-donald-trump-and-dont-use-his-language/a-42213110

no. 517

When the media is owned by those who believe they have the right to choose leaders, and who also believe that only the rich have the right to make decisions, the media ceases to be an objective reporting tool, and becomes an instrument of criminal conspiracy.

From the book “Hire A Hero”, by Timothy Ellis

no. 516

“As you've seen, the relentless return of U.S. conservatism to hatefully anti-science error always turns out to have been bought and paid for by cynical oligarchs. Manipulators who are never brought into account for the countless lives their delaying tactics wrecked.”

David Brin, ostensibly discussing the Tobacco Industry, but also so much more. 

no. 515

“Being a dissident is rooted in the belief that if everyone knew, the tide would turn against injustice. Dissidents don’t want you to be comfortable. They feel compelled to act and they want you to care as much as they do.”

Garry Kasparov

no. 514

"I was born with a reading list I will never finish." 

Maud Casey

no. 513

"The fact that homosexuality exists in 1,500 species and homophobia exists in one is proof that love is something human beings need more of."

Lacey Roop

no. 512

"It's true that the early bird gets the worm, but the early worm gets eaten."

Me