“We have distant democracy, well suited to a distant penocracy, well suited to serve a large-scale society using taximeters to control the price of all acts.”
“Illegally disconnect my electricity and we will have a problem.”
“Journalists must uphold democracy; they are its fourth and last pillar”
“If the government disability system or workers compensation system discovers that the company involved has been breaking numerous Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) laws, is it legally required to report it to OSHA?”
“In the era of public distrust of the police, it is common sense not to be a police officer.”
“When interacting with a police officer, I am aware that I am in the presence of a radiation exposed person that may be showing the long term adverse effects of those toxic exposures.”
“At its worst, crime turns parts of our country into what one journalist calls “budding Mogadishus,” named after the capital of Somalia where, for years, there has been no government: L.A.’s hot zones are tiny, intensely dangerous areas where nothing works, where law has broken down and mainstream institutions simply fail. Places where mail carriers and meter readers balk when the bullets fly. Where paramedics and firefighters are hesitant to enter because of the crossfire. Where police officers go in only heavily reinforced or with helicopters . . . . Race is part of it. According to one calculation of homicide victimization rates for men, ages 15 to 29, Hispanics in Los Angeles are killed at seven times the white rate and blacks at 21 times the white rate. Hardly any are killed by whites. Calling these places “Mogadishus” may be an insult to the Somalis. When CNN compiled a list of the ten most dangerous cities in the world in 2010, Mogadishu was not on it. Detroit and New Orleans were—in third and fourth places, after Baghdad and Caracas and ahead of Kinshasa and Beirut.”
“How did harassing me work out for you in the end?”
“There is a reason why there is a law. As much as we want. We can t always do how we feel and what we want, but we have to do what is right, because doing what we like or want might be wrong. Might harm, put in danger, or kill others”
“I urge the general public to be wary of the police on the grounds of health and safety.”
“[T]he only thing they needed was hope. Not that pie in the sky stuff, not a preference for optimism over pessimism, but rather “an orientation of the spirit.” The kind of hope that creates a willingness to position oneself in a hopeless place and be a witness, that allows one to believe in a better future, even in the face of abusive power. That kind of hope makes one strong.”
“People wanted to meet celebrities, all Sia wanted and wished for is to somehow get to meet a criminal”
“It was going to be a like a face off; though just one of those of a criminal kind”
“Such was the law of the land and of God and one had to pay for his sins in this form itself, in this life itself”
“Come on, we ve got some international laws to break.”
“Become conscious of conscience and leaving the unconscious to their suffering for their knowledge is elementary to the elements of Universal Law; never ascending to a spiritual god but to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, one must have the mind of a childs innocence.”
“It s a deep sense of revelation that goes beyond the senses, give ear as I try to make sense of it. Imagination is the fourth dimension, matter built from mind is to build on a solid foundation. So come look from within which is the creative power of the without, for without the within, all is obsolete.”