You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.
I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.
If you always say no, you'll never say yes.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. " The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.
White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.