You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counterargument and time.
-- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.

#Wisdom #Quotes #ZechariahChafeeJr #Politics

#Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

1984 (part 2) #Wordletrek

Would George Orwell have played Wordle ?

I guess we'll never know Captain

'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.' Orwell 1984

Ever read him Spock?

Fanciful speculative future fiction Sir.

Read him?

Defies logic captain.

Admit it.

Alright my human half enjoys sci-fi on the side sir.

I knew it.

Heard of plagiarism Spock?

I blame the writers Sir

Through a glass, darkly

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

First Corinthians 13 : 12

Finite & infinite

We take up something--we know it is finite; but as soon as we begin to analyze it, it leads us beyond our reason, and we never find an end to all its qualities, its possibilities, its powers, its relations. It has become infinite.

Vivekananda

Source: Ramanujan Notebooks II

All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.
(Pyramids)

Such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy. Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sorts of parties.

Snowflake is a word used by sociopaths in an attempt to discredit the notion of empathy.
-- John Cleese

#Wisdom #Quotes #JohnCleese #Empathy #Sociopaths

#Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Books

Food as an aphrodisiac was not a concept that had ever caught on in Lancre, apart from Nanny Ogg’s famous Carrot and Oyster Pie.*
*Carrots so you can see in the dark, she’d explain, and oysters so’s you’ve got something to look at. (Lords and Ladies)

The sign said:
Hold stick near centre of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.
"It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."

Experience is NOT what happens to you; it is what YOU DO with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Experience

#Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Clouds #Iowa

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot right now.

#Quotes #Inequalities #ChartlesEvanHughes

THIS guy gets it, and he passed in 1948.

No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. ... Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation. The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious instruments of political artifice. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ... The peril of this nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope! -Charles Evans Hughes, jurist and statesman (11 Apr 1862-1948)

This week's Terry Pratchett quote:

“Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.”
― Terry Pratchett

#pratchett #quotes #weeklypratchettquote

EDIT: Apparently not a genuine PTerry quote. My apologies. I'll leave it here, though.

Big brother is watching us? #Wordletrek

Can you see the massive eye watching us Spock

Have you taken your meds yet Sir?

Even in Wordle now Spock look at the blocks

“Big Brother is watching you.” 1984 George Orwell

My latest read Spock

Hundreds of lives on the Enterprise are depending on you Captain

tbc

"Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again forever." – H. Rider Haggard #quotes

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #HumanBeings #Life

#Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

Darwin's expression, "the struggle for existence," is sometimes erroneously interpreted as the struggle between different species. In reality, the struggle Darwin was thinking of and which drives evolution forward is the competition between near relations. What causes a species to disappear or become transformed into a different species is the profitable "invention" that falls by chance to one or a few of its members in the everlasting gamble of hereditary change. The descendants of these lucky ones gradually outstrip all others until the particular species consists only of individuals who possess the new "invention."
-- Konrad Lorenz (On Aggression)

#Wisdom #Quotes #KonradLorenz #Competition #StruggleforExistence

#Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

“I sometimes see people say that social change is impossible. But this is just not true. Social change is INEVITABLE. What isn’t inevitable is the timbre and shape of that social change, which we decide together.”
— John Green

‘I never look back,’ said Rincewind firmly. ‘One of the first rules of running away is, never look back.’
(Eric)