“Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.” FirstsEvilLossLibertyPrinciplesFailingDangerousFundamentalsTemporaryPretextFundamental PrinciplesDeviationProlonging Book:Selected Writings of James Madison Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.” ShouldHumansArtFeelingsFormDesireUnitedKnownFailingSubjectsPureArt IsDifficultyFundamentalsInstinctJudgementAbstractEroticSpectators Book:The nude: a study in ideal form Source: The nude: a study in ideal form
“The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside.” PeopleKnowsWorldWaySpeakDecisionAnswersStudyFailingThis WorldFundamentalsLaysPunishmentBeing TrueParksDividedNelsonRosaConspiringConsonants Author:Parker J. Palmer
“One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States.” PeopleMenShouldBelieveStatesGovernmentCertainI BelieveInterestFailingSpecialHe ManFundamentalsCorporationsOfficersRepresentativesForbiddenCompensationProvisionSpecial InterestsDelegatesInterstateRepresentative Government Book:Letters and Speeches Source: Letters and Speeches