If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friends, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
~ E.M. Forster
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Betrayal →
Hindsight →
We’re driving faster and faster into the future, trying to steer by using only the rear-view mirror.
~ Marshall McLuhan
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Commitment →
Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of it.
~ Rollo May
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Disagreement →
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, and sound casuists doubt like you and me?
~ Alexander Pope
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Pictures →
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.
~ Elliot Erwitt
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Work →
No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.
~ Carl Jung
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Machines →
If you fall in love with a machine there is something wrong with your love-life. If you worship a machine there is something wrong with your religion.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Uncompleted →
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
~ William James
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Malice →
Insolence is not logic; Epithets are the arguments of malice.
~ R.G. Ingerson
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Democracy →
The polis or gathering place for governing, the root of our modern politics, was nothing but a physical space that designated and enabled the conversational space required for true self-governing. The capacity for talking together constituted the foundation for democracy, far more fundamental than voting. As one ancient Greek philosopher noted, “When voting started, democracy ended.”
~ Peter M. Senge
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