How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented – reeducated – before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries? Do they know? Would they care? There are worse things happening here in the States and elsewhere, I know.
Sometimes you have to remember a feeling you haven’t had for a long time and bring it back so you can transmit it to someone else or use a feeling you have about one thing to help someone understand something else.
We are a harvest of survivors.
Consider: Whether you’re a human being, an insect, a microbe, or a stone, this verse is true. All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.
Then show me what you are. Give me the trust you ask me to give you.
I can’t unfind you,” he said.
You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction – controlling it absolutely.
We do what we do, Lilith.
The bed was what it had always been: a solid platform that gave slightly to the touch and that seemed to grow from the floor.
A leader Most will follow, Or a tyrant Most fear.
A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.
This could be a great time to live in,” Kevin said once. “I keep thinking what an experience it would be to stay in it – go West and watch the building of the country, see how much of the Old West mythology is true.
Beware: At war or at peace, more people die of unenlightened self interest than of any other disease.
I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.
Belief will not save you. Only actions Guided and shaped By belief and knowledge Will save you. Belief Initiates and guides action – Or it does nothing.
The Human Contradiction held them. Intelligence at the service of hierarchical behavior. They were not free.
Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.
It was literally the best food she had tasted in two hundred and fifty years.
But those dedicated to other religions, and those who are not religious at all sneer at Jarret and call him a hypocrite. They sneer, they hate him, but they also fear him. They see him for the tyrant that he is. And the thugs see him as one of them. They envy him. He is the bigger, the more successful thief, murderer, and slaver.
The stars are free.” She shrugs. “I’d rather have the city lights back myself, the sooner the better. But we can afford the stars.