Things will probably come our alright, but sometimes it takes strong nerves just to watch. | |
— Hedley Donovan | |
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2014 | Pleasurable Law |
2013 | Room For Justice |
In The Minds Of Others | |
2012 | Extinction, n. |
2011 | Snap! |
Posts Tagged ‘On Politics’
Thinking About November 8th, 2016
Posted in My Journal, Politics, Quotes, tagged Hedley Donovan, My Journal, On Politics, Presidential Elections, Quotes on August 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Today’s Rule
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, On Insanity, On Politics, Quotes on April 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. | |
― Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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2015 | Remembering Oklahoma City |
2014 | Who Was That Masked Man? |
2013 | Enemy Mine |
2012 | Strengthen Me |
2011 | Service, Please |
2010 | The Church In Crisis… |
Three Roars
Posted in History, Politics, Quotes, tagged Henry Kissinger, On History, On Iraq, On Politics, Quotes, The Lion In Winter, Time Magazine on August 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. | |
To seek to achieve [American values] by military occupation in a part of the world where they had no historical roots, imbued the American endeavor in Iraq with a Sisyphean quality. | |
Long ago, in youth, I was brash enough to think myself able to pronounce on ‘The Meaning of History‘. I now know that history’s meaning is a matter to be discovered, not declared. | |
— Henry Kissinger | |
The three quotes are from the article: “The Lion in Winter“ | |
Written by: Walter Isaacson | |
Appearing in: Time Magazine; dtd: 22 September 2014 | |
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2014 | Be R-E-L-E-V-A-N-T |
2013 | Lacking |
2012 | So Small A Thing |
2011 | Is Your Time Valuable? |
Warning
Posted in History, Politics, Quotes, tagged History, On Politics, On Rome, On The Concentration Of Wealth, Quotes, The History of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, Will Durant on May 10, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The new generation, having inherited world mastery, had no time or inclination to defend it; that readiness for war which had characterized the Roman landowner disappeared now that ownership was concentrated in a few families and a proletariat without stake in the country filled the slums of Rome. | |
— Will Durant | |
From his book: “The History of Civilization: Caesar and Christ“ | |
[A cautionary note to the 1%… — KMAB] | |
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2014 | Always More Productive |
2013 | Is Not |
2012 | Loosely Translated |
2011 | Your Opinions Are Not My Facts |
On The Road To Failure
Posted in Other Blogs, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged http://jrbenjamin.com/, Joseph Story, On Politics, On The Fall Of The Republic, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes on February 26, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them. | |
— Joseph Story | |
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States | |
[Found at one of the many blogs I follow: http://jrbenjamin.com/ | |
The specific post / page is at: http://jrbenjamin.com/2015/01/26/americas-threat-from-within/ | |
Please visit the original site if you have a moment to spare… — kmab] | |
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2022 | Don’t Pretend |
2021 | I Like Curves More, Too |
I Don’t Know What I’d Do | |
2020 | Pay It Forward |
2019 | From My Sullied Prison |
2018 | In My Room (2) |
2017 | Pretending |
2016 | And Songs Too… |
2015 | On The Road To Failure |
2014 | Each Moment |
2013 | Conversation |
2012 | 4 Down, 11 Done (At Last) |
I’m Not Afraid | |
2011 | Who’s Risk Is It, Anyway? |
Is It Time Yet?
Posted in Other Blogs, Politics, Quotes, tagged http://culturemonk.com/, On Politics, Other Blogs, Quotes on February 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Let us never be afraid to engage, and if ever the day comes that we are; perhaps it’s time to reevaluate our positions. | |
[Found on one of the blogs I follow: http://culturemonk.com/ | |
The quote is from the specific post at: http://culturemonk.com/2014/09/22/afraid-to-engage-really/ | |
Please visit the original site if you have a chance. — kmab] | |
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2022 | Full Of It |
2021 | I’m Still Learning To Play |
What Are You Looking For? | |
2020 | All You Can |
2019 | No Wall And Not One Dollar |
‘Cause It Makes Me Scratch | |
2018 | Mirror, Mirror |
2017 | Keep On Keeping On |
2016 | Reflections |
2015 | Is It Time Yet? |
2014 | Ask Any Follower |
2013 | Cornered Or Surrounded? |
2012 | Escape |
2011 | Achievement |
Not Unreasonable Enough | |
Positive Acts Of Creation
Posted in History, Politics, Quotes, tagged A Study Of History, Arnold J. Toynbee, External Proletariat, Inherited Privilege, Merit, On Class Warfare, On Politics, Positive Acts Of Creation, Quotes, The Dominant Minority, The Internal Proletariat on February 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »
First the Dominant Minority attempts to hold by force — against all right and reason — a position of inherited privilege which it has ceased to merit; and then the Proletariat repays injustice with resentment, fear with hate, and violence with violence when it executes its acts of secession. Yet the whole movement ends in positive acts of creation — and this on the part of all the actors in the tragedy of disintegration. The Dominant Minority creates a universal state, the Internal Proletariat a universal church, and the External Proletariat a bevy of barbarian war-bands. | |
— Arnold J. Toynbee | |
From his book: “A Study of History” | |
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2022 | Suggestions (The Order Of Precedence Is Optional)… |
2021 | But That’s Certainly Irrational |
Just Goin’ To My Room | |
2020 | The Butterflies Are In Trouble |
2019 | The Deep Center |
2018 | Oh, Heaven (Too) |
2017 | Now Pausing Makes Sense |
2016 | Just Spicy |
Only One Part | |
2015 | Positive Acts Of Creation |
2014 | One Thing Is Clear |
2013 | Corrections |
See Greatness | |
2012 | Gemutlichkeit |
2011 | Back On The Asphalt |
Say What?
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged G. K. Chesterton, On Patriotism, On Politics, Quotes on June 27, 2014| 2 Comments »
“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.” | |
— G. K. Chesterton | |
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2013 | Accepting Beauty |
2012 | Transitional Choice To Ride The Wave |
2011 | Freedom Isn’t Always Perfect |
Just That Simple | |
Back When I Was A Firebrand
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Politics, tagged My Journal, On Change, On Helping The Needy, On Politics, Philosophy on May 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »
You ask of me: “Why change?“ | |
I can only answer: “Why not?“ | |
I do not demand change for its own sake, or even for my own sake; I demand it for the sake of those who must follow. For the sake of those who hunger for food or thirst for knowledge. For the old, the tired, the broken, and the breaking. For all those in need of change — I demand it. | |
I demand change because in these times, to stand still is to fall behind. I demand change because I am here, and speaking, and you are there, and listening. I demand change because if a culture can change, it can survive, it can advance. And advance is progress. Above all else, I demand progress. I demand it! | |
–– KMAB | |
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2013 | Pen In Hand |
Word Up! | |
2012 | Disturbing |
Trying To Keep Up | |
2011 | Unreliable And Selective |
2010 | Adult-Onset Athlete |
Sounds Like Faux News To Me
Posted in My Journal, Politics, Quotes, tagged Faux News, Fox (Faux) News, Fox News, Marcus Tullius Cicero, My Journal, On Politics, Quotes on May 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. | |
— Cicero | |
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2013 | Reasons |
2012 | American Libertarianism |
2011 | The Goal |
Have You Registered To Vote Yet?
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged My Journal, On Politics, On Registering To Vote, On The Death Of Democracy, On Voting, Philosophy, Quotes, Robert Maynard Hutchins on May 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment. | |
— Robert Maynard Hutchins | |
[Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote for the California state primary in June. — KMAB] | |
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2013 | Ripples From The Water’s Edge |
Because I Was Alone | |
2012 | POI vs Reality |
Dear And Sacred | |
2011 | Chilled Again |
Always More Productive
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Politics, Quotes, tagged George Washington, On A Peaceful Society, On Politics, On Religious Controversy, Quotes, Sir Edward Newenham on May 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their [not our?] religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society. | |
— George Washington, | |
First President of the United States in a letter to Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, June 22, 1792 | |
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2013 | Is Not |
2012 | Loosely Translated |
2011 | Your Opinions Are Not My Facts |
Generations
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged Abigail Adams, http://jrbenjamin.com/, On Politics, President John Adams, Quotes, The Bully Pulpit on April 6, 2014| 2 Comments »
The science of government it is my duty to study… I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. | |
— John Adams | |
[Writing to his wife, Abigail Adams, | |
From a letter sent from Paris on May 12th, 1780 | |
Found on a blog I follow: The Bully Pulpit | |
Located at: http://jrbenjamin.com/ | |
The specific post is: http://jrbenjamin.com/2014/03/03/the-sovereign-subject/ | |
— KMAB] | |
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2013 | Two For One |
2012 | Seen And Heard |
2011 | The Hazards And Vicissitudes Of Life |
Taken Back
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, History, Quotes, tagged Faith, Gordon S. Wood, History, Is the United States a Christian nation?, Letter to the Editor, Los Angeles Time, Moral Majority, On Christianity, On Politics, Quotes, Rev. Richard T. Zuelch, Separation of Church and State, The Radicalism of the American Revolution on March 10, 2014| 3 Comments »
Gordon S. Wood, in his 1992 book, “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” states that, by the 1790’s only about 10% of the American population regularly attended religious services to quote just one statistic. Not exactly an indication of a wholehearted national commitment to Christianity! It is a matter of simple historical fact that the United States was not founded as, nor was it ever intended to be, a Christian nation. That there were strong, long-lasting Christian influences involved in the nation’s earliest history, due to the Puritan settlements and those of other religious persons escaping European persecution, cannot be denied. But that is a long way from saying that colonial leaders, by the time of the outbreak of the Revolution, were intending to form a nation founded on specifically Christian principles and doctrine. | |
We Christians do ourselves no favor by bending history to suit our prejudices or to accommodate wishful thinking. Rather than continue to cling to a “Moral Majority”-style fantasy that says America is a Christian nation that needs to be “taken back” from secular unbelief (we can’t “take back” what we never had), it would be much healthier for us Christians to face reality, holding to what Jesus himself said in the Gospels: that Christians should never be surprised at the hostility with which the gospel would be greeted by the world, because most people would fail to believe in him, thereby strongly implying that, in every age and country, Christianity would always be a minority faith. | |
— Rev. Richard T. Zuelch | |
Letter to the Editor | |
Los Angeles Times | |
14 August 1995 | |
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2013 | Windows Or Doors |
2012 | All Rise |
2011 | Vote Weight |