Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them. ) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.
If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.
There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.
We don't see profit as a blind instrument.