Sunday, June 30, 2013

Adolf Hitler

The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Rumi

Work with the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

Monday, June 17, 2013

Richard Rohr

You cannot wait for things to be totally perfect to fall in love with them or you will never love anything.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Paul's likely last letter

Suffering produces endurance; endurance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint. (Romans 5:1-5 in the Newer Testament part of the Bible)

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Chris Hedges

There is nothing in 5,000 years of economic history to justify the belief that human societies should structure their behavior around the demands of the marketplace.