#bed

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery. ↗

— Douglas Coop

#charisma #civil-disobedience #loaded-language #power #propaganda

But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like, and grinds me down into the very dirt! And why? Because, he says, I forgot who I was; he says, to teach me that I am only a nigger! After all, and last of all, he comes between me and my wife, and says I shall give her up, and live with another woman. And all this your laws give him power to do, in spite of God or man. Mr. Wilson, look at it! There isn't one of all these things, that have broken the hearts of my mother and my sister, and my wife and myself, but your laws allow, and give every man power to do, in Kentucky, and none can say to him nay! Do you call these the laws of my country? Sir, I haven't any country, anymore than I have any father. But I'm going to have one. I don't want anything of your country, except to be let alone,--to go peaceably out of it; and when I get to Canada, where the laws will own me and protect me, that shall be my country, and its laws I will obey. But if any man tries to stop me, let him take care, for I am desperate. I'll fight for my liberty to the last breath I breathe. You say your fathers did it; if it was right for them, it is right for me! ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#human-rights #racism #slavery #social-justice #slavery

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion ↗

— C.P. Snow

#rebellion #rebellion

Reading—it’s the third best thing to do in bed.
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— Jarod Kintz

#fornicate #fornication #read #reading #sex

This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#promises #obedience

I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed.
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— Jarod Kintz

#disturbed #door #doors #hope #hospitality

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ↗

— Aristotle

#civil-disobedience #good #patriotism #value #virtue

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#always #childhood #deep #embedded #feel

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#embedded #entity #exist #extent #isolated

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#convenient #described #distinguish #experience #kinds