Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works. )
Control healthcare and you control the people
True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.
Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same dressing room! [laughs] It's a great place to build something with freedom.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.