“Ignorant people submit to a kingdom that has inherited power. Remember that democracy always seeks the superior idea of governing affairs.”
“Free elections are not the enemy of any popular belief.”
“Free elections are the only way to perpetuate a political dynasty.”
“Election humiliators are fundamentally hostile to it.”
“In a country where there are no popular political parties and groups, elections are becoming more and more dirty.”
“Belief Initiates and guides action— Or it does nothing.”
“My mother and father were always pushing me away from secondhand answers—even the answers they themselves believed. I don’t know that I have ever found any satisfactory answers of my own. But every time I ask it, the question is refined. That is the best of what the old heads meant when they spoke of being “politically conscious”—as much a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as exploration rather than the search for certainty.”
“So that s it. I ve told you everything I know. Think clearly and think for yourself. Learn to use language to express those thoughts. Love somebody with all your heart. And with everyone, whether you love them or not, find out if you can be helpful. But really, it s even simpler than that. After all this time, and all these talks in public and in private, I think I get it now. If I were taking my friend Arnold s suggestion and spoke from my deathbed, I think I know what I d say. I see now that I had my meaning all along, I just had to notice it. The meaning of life... is life. Not noticing life is what s meaningless, even down to the last second.”
“There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [...] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more than that two people have lived together for twenty years just without fighting more often than once a week.”
“That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he d remember and look back on, one of those moments that he d try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering. [p214]”
“May the land be free from the existence of dictators and anti-libertarians.”
“The land is developing with self-sacrificing and freedom-loving people.”
“We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves.”
“Without freedom, culture will burn.”
“Human history has shown that if we do not demand freedom, no one will give it to us.”
“Libertarianism and humanity should be the most prominent human temperament.”
“The fearlessness of the herd is in the shepherd s awakening.”