To inspire others, you must first inspire yourself. Only true passion can awake passion in others
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine and destroy popular movements whenever possible.
To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them.
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.
It’s less as if he sees me and more as if. . . something happens to him.
Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.