So we’re lookin’ out on the world and what do we see
Another screen full of horror, another atrocity,
What can I do as simple man who wants to make a difference,
Wants to do what he can, not just talk about it.
Stone drops in a pond, stirs the sediment, sends ripples, to the edge of the world.
Another screen full of horror, another atrocity,
What can I do as simple man who wants to make a difference,
Wants to do what he can, not just talk about it.
Stone drops in a pond, stirs the sediment, sends ripples, to the edge of the world.
Song: Another Chance
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
The test of a true individuality of style is that we should feel it to be inevitable.
This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: The freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: Any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
Of course, there are cases where only a rare individual will have the vision to perceive a system which governs many peoples’ lives, a system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that the system really is there, and that it ought to be exited from.
Book: “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”, pg 37
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
You’re only so sure you’re right because they’re so sure you’re wrong.
Book: “Xenocide” by Orson Scott Card