16-02-2022, 01:07 PM
ÔÇ£Wherever you live in this countryÔÇÖ, she says ÔÇ£we want you to be part of building its future and if youÔÇÖre not, that is a problem for all of us, because we miss out on what youÔÇÖre capable of. So what is it we can give you that lets you go out & take the world on rather than be fearful of it?ÔÇØ
Stella Creasy, Brit. MP.
I must belong somewhere, Jonathan Dean
"When Theresa May made her first party conference speech as Prime Minister, she said that if you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.
It is worth noting that, in Germany in 1933, someone said ÔÇ£It is a small rootless, international clique that is turning the people against each other ÔÇô that does not want them to have peace. It is people who are at home both nowhere & everywhere ÔÇô who do not have anywhere a soil on which they have grown up.ÔÇØ
That person was Adolf Hitler.
I put MayÔÇÖs speech to Stella. ÔÇ£A citizen of the world, for me, is about compassionÔÇØ she says ÔÇ£And my worry is sheÔÇÖs trading off patriotism against compassion. Compassion & tolerance always used to be a very proud British value & sheÔÇÖs stripping that out.ÔÇØ
Stella Creasy, Brit. MP.
I must belong somewhere, Jonathan Dean
ÔÇ£I now signified that it was imperatively necessary I should be relieved of her prescence.ÔÇØ
IsnÔÇÖt that a wonderfully elegant way of saying ÔÇÿpi** off?!ÔÇÖ
(Charlotte Bronte, Villette.)
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
ÔÇ£It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away that he is entitled to them & whatever they can buy, & fancies himself cock of the walk.ÔÇØ
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Stella Creasy, Brit. MP.
I must belong somewhere, Jonathan Dean
"When Theresa May made her first party conference speech as Prime Minister, she said that if you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.
It is worth noting that, in Germany in 1933, someone said ÔÇ£It is a small rootless, international clique that is turning the people against each other ÔÇô that does not want them to have peace. It is people who are at home both nowhere & everywhere ÔÇô who do not have anywhere a soil on which they have grown up.ÔÇØ
That person was Adolf Hitler.
I put MayÔÇÖs speech to Stella. ÔÇ£A citizen of the world, for me, is about compassionÔÇØ she says ÔÇ£And my worry is sheÔÇÖs trading off patriotism against compassion. Compassion & tolerance always used to be a very proud British value & sheÔÇÖs stripping that out.ÔÇØ
Stella Creasy, Brit. MP.
I must belong somewhere, Jonathan Dean
ÔÇ£I now signified that it was imperatively necessary I should be relieved of her prescence.ÔÇØ
IsnÔÇÖt that a wonderfully elegant way of saying ÔÇÿpi** off?!ÔÇÖ
(Charlotte Bronte, Villette.)
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
ÔÇ£It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away that he is entitled to them & whatever they can buy, & fancies himself cock of the walk.ÔÇØ
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)