It is not because things are difficult that we do not venture. It is because we do not venture that things are difficult.
Seneca
#twisdom #action #courage
It is not because things are difficult that we do not venture. It is because we do not venture that things are difficult.
Seneca
#twisdom #action #courage
Justice is what love looks like in public.
Cornel West
#twisdom #justice
Revolution is not a one time event.
Audre Lorde
#twisdom #contestation
Those who will do anything for power are precisely those who should not be trusted with it.
Anonymous
It’s easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
Adlai Stevenson
#twisdom #character
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We despise politicians and revere elections.
David Van Reybrouck
#twisdom #politics #philo
Politics is the site of contestation, so it should never begin with conclusions.
Hannah Arendt
#twisdom #Arendt #politicalTheory
Put the argument into a concrete shape…round & solid as a ball, which they can see & handle & carry home…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#twisdom #twoetry #language
2010s American politics: anachronism split bw a 1910s labor creed & an 1810s frontier. Each blind in one eye, neither can think 3D.
A.R.T.
#twisdom