“Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.” PeopleTryingDoeSeemsBeautifulValuesLeftSocialSportsSeaAspectRiversFishesAccomplishGenuineBoatStreamsLakesFishingSolitarySurroundingsCrowdedLeft AloneContemplativeTrout Author:John Gierach
“There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.” MenLeftSinDegreesGenuineIdleIdleness Author:J. G. Holland
“A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.” MenDoeSufferingLeftEconomyFunctionBottomGenuineLiberalismGoodbyeCapitalistCompetingIrrelevantMicrocosmCapitalist Economy Book:The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches
“Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system, which is expected to be under democratic vigilance, and others are left to the person or the group, which ideally debate moral problems in a rational, free and cooperative manner.” PersonsProblemValuesLeftMoralDemocracyGroupsAuthorityDemocraticExpectedDebateGenuineRationalRegimesRulersVigilanceCooperativesLegal SystemTheocracyMoral Authority Author:Mario Bunge