thought for the day

[brihacharan]

TREAT RELATIONSHIPS LIKE FIRE...
TOO CLOSE & YOU GET SCORCHED,
TOO FAR & YOU DON'T GET ITS WARMTH...
STAY AT THE RIGHT DISTANCE TO ENJOY ITS WARMTH
Briha

[goodboy_mentor]

"You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build." — Sean O'Casey

[goodboy_mentor]

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

[goodboy_mentor]

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs" - Thomas Jefferson

[nagarifle]

Remus - if law enforcement acts as if the people are their enemy, law enforcement is not entitled to be surprised if the people believe them.

[brihacharan]

Life is like a Camera…
Just Focus on what is Important and Capture the Good Times…
Develop from the negatives and if things do not work out…
JUST TAKE ANOTHER SHOT
Have a Great Day!!!
Briha

[goodboy_mentor]

If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive do you think ghosts will do it after? - Sant Kabir

[goodboy_mentor]

Insanity in individuals is something rare but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule - Friedrich Nietzsche

[nagarifle]

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
— Immanuel Kant, Prussian geographer and philosopher (1724-1804

[goodboy_mentor]

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief - Frantz Fannon

[goodboy_mentor]

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

[nagarifle]

Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, public philosopher and poet (1803-1882)

[nagarifle]

It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute notions of universal justice. Every time we see a villain enjoying the fruits of dishonorable acts we find ourselves doubting the value of character and the validity of the virtues we have been taught. Thus, it takes character to believe in character, but that belief is always rewarded, often by material success, but always by the esteem it earns from those who matter. –

Michael Josephson

[nagarifle]

There comes a time in every man’s life when he is called upon to do something very special for which he and he alone has the capabilities, has the skills, and has the necessary training. What a pity if the moment finds the man unprepared. —Winston Churchill

[Hammerhead]

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors - Plato