…[T]he Constitution is not, and should not be, an idol under strict taboos. It is not, and should not be, a strait-jacket for the growing and developing nation which it was made to serve. The Constitution itself outlines the procedure for its own amendment, and it thus expressly devoted to the principle that it is neither inviolable nor permanent, but a working instrument to secure the general welfare of the people.
“… the rockets of jubilation and the bells of glory … announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch
“Y.M.: I see him now as he walks, stops, walks again, lifts his head upward as though absorbed in prayer. O God, save me from those who, crawling on their knees, hide a knife they would like to sink in my back. But how can God help? All the people su…
“[A] strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our count…
“The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bil…
“But Occupy Wall Street’s most defining characteristics—its decentralized nature and its intensive process of participatory, consensus-based decision-making—are rooted in other precincts of academe and activism: in the scholarship of anarchism …
“The foundation-stone of persuasive speech is what Aristotle in the 4th century BC described as the “ethos” appeal. Before pathos (the attempt to sway emotions) and logos (the appeal to reason) comes the speaker’s self-presentation. Establishin…
“But history does not conform to a script, and every historical moment is surrounded by a penumbra of adjacent possibles. There is a deep affinity between or cognitive interest in understanding society and our practical interest in changing it. As in…
“The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people.” – Steve Jobs, to Rupert Murdoch
Man-made forest, Bohol.
