bmacDonald94

bmacDonald94, 1 hour ago to random

"The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there."
Christopher Hitchens

bmacDonald94, 1 day ago to random

American Politics ~
A shell game without the Pea . . .

bmacDonald94, 1 day ago to random

"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

bmacDonald94, 2 days ago to random

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
Simone Weil

bmacDonald94, 2 days ago to random

"I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing."
Mary Oliver

bmacDonald94, 2 days ago to random

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
Aldous Huxley

bmacDonald94, 3 days ago to random

"You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you."
James A. Baldwin

bmacDonald94, 3 days ago to random

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
James A. Baldwin

bmacDonald94, 4 days ago to random

In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that."
Bill McKibben

bmacDonald94, 5 days ago to random

"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason... Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
Frederick Douglass

bmacDonald94, 6 days ago to random

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
Aldous Huxley

bmacDonald94, 8 days ago to random

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
Margaret Mead

bmacDonald94, 8 days ago to random

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
Margaret Mead

bmacDonald94, 8 days ago to random

Playing for Change
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
(Robbie Robertson)

https://www.playingforchange.com/videos/knockin-on-heavens-door-playing-for-change-band-live-outside

bmacDonald94, 9 days ago to random

"We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself."
Rachel Carson

bmacDonald94, 9 days ago to random

"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in."
Rachel Carson

bmacDonald94, 9 days ago to random

"One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?"
Rachel Carson

bmacDonald94, 10 days ago to random

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."
Margaret Atwood

bmacDonald94, 10 days ago to random

"You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see."
Margaret Atwood

bmacDonald94, 11 days ago to random

"When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison."
Angela Davis