My political position is that I'm happy to be alive and in North America.
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.
The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves.
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man. ' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it. " Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends
Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it.
We had Hillary Clinton try and do a reset. We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20% of the uranium in our country.