It is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Monthly Archives: May 2015
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
~ Peter Drucker
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Markets for labor, land, and money are easy to distinguish; but it is not so easy to distinguish those parts of a culture the nucleus of which is formed by human beings, their natural surroundings, and productive organizations, respectively. Man and nature are practically one in the cultural sphere; and the money aspect of productive enterprise enters only into one socially vital interest, namely, the unity and cohesion of the nation.
― Karl Polanyi
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
~ George Orwell
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Three Silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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As a flood spreads wider and wider, the water becomes shallower and dirtier. The Revolution evaporates, and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
~ Franz Kafka
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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