“As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business.” IfsBelieveI BelieveVoicePhonesCellsDamnProtestSurveillanceCell PhonePhone CallsNsa Author:Rand Paul
“I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.” IfsWorldWantBelieveI BelieveTraditionInnovationBlindMajoritySilentProtestCivilizedIndividualismIrrationalBackwardsBlindnessBlind FaithSilent Majority Author:Taslima Nasrin
“If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest.” IfsMenShouldBelieveMayInterestAnimalStagePossibilityBrotherDevelopmentDemandCreaturesWeaknessMereProtestAnimal RightsFeathersInabilityFurRefrainObtainingFinsStages Of Development Author:Luther Burbank
“Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.” BelieveCoursesI BelieveProcessDoubtFieldsBlindCleanI Believe InAbsurdPursueReasoningProtestInvestigationAlleysValiditySlateProclamationMethodical Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.” BelieveLongStillsMatterAgeCoursesI BelieveLaughingYouthProudLaughterGratefulSevenLoudFortyProtestMake Me LaughGift Of LaughterLaugh Often Book:The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm