“For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.” WorldHas BeensMomentsProblemWould BeMistakeFantasyImagineTeachingDangerousDrugAddictionCastsTraumaDecadesTolerancePunishmentHolesTemptationVulnerableChiefsSmokeSettlingComplexityCrushZeroImagine ThatRhetoricBrushesFrustratingCommandersPledgePouringDrug AddictionDrug AddictCommander In ChiefScapegoatZero Tolerance Author:Ellen Willis
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” WayInspirationalWisdomInspirationFreedomInspiringLibertyPositiveDrugRespectIndependentCastsPositivityHumanitarianChainsLiberationLive LifePrisonerRespecting OthersFreedom And LibertyFreedom Of ThoughtWay To LiveFreedom LibertyCivil LibertiesApartheidFreedom Of ChoiceBeing FreeFreedom FighterLive FreeInspirational CharityLiberty And JusticeEnhancementLong Walk To FreedomFighting For FreedomIndependence And FreedomGreat FreedomBreaking FreeLive For OthersInspiring Independence DayEducation And FreedomHappy 4th Of JulyInspirational FreedomFavorite WordsFreedom Of AssemblyMoral FreedomUsa Freedom Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.” WritingI CanEndsStreetsBearsDrugWindowCastsTortureTonightStrain Book:Dagon Source: Dagon
“Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can ensure that I will catch it.” MenLongI CanStatesBrainWiseKingsDrugSaintCastsPursueSubtleCrownsDungeons Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.” IfsWorldWantBookDreamHouseInterestPositionDrugAreasDistanceCastsDefenseBridgesDimensionsOutside World Author:Italo Calvino