Your life begins to end the moment you start being silent about the things that matter. — Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader CONSUMER addictions blank out the sounds, smells and scandals that assail normal senses and consciousness. Survival of the ablest is the law of the concrete
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons, and cease to grow. — Anais Nin, American essayist A new sovereign experimental nation, Ochlosia, from ochlocracy (rule by people, or kedaulatan rakyat as Malaysians would style it), was recently birthed as a political breakthrough.
Monsters are real, and so are ghosts. They live inside us, and sometimes they win. — Stephen King, American author Ebenezer Scrooge, the character from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” seeks redemption when ghosts from the past visit him. He has become mean, unkind, uncharitable and greedy like his childhood. This
The main challenge is what to do in the face of double standards. — Richard A Falk, American international law professor De facto applies to that which exists naturally, and will continue to be so because of its intrinsic characteristics as a being; de jure refers to that which is
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat. – JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, FRENCH PHILOSOPHER A political volcano erupted in a 1709 English tract Vox populi, Vox Dei (Latin: The voice of the people is the voice of God). It spewed forth a super-hot molten truth that mankind
The American people are free to do exactly what they are told. – WARD CHURCHILL, AMERICAN AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST The College of Propaganda was first established in 1627 Rome to propagate ecumenical policies and programs to the four corners of the world. The meaning of “propaganda,” inevitably, took on a
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill, British statesman Politics invariably pivots upon and government revolves around two predominant persuasions – those who want change (liberals), and those who prefer the status quo (conservatives). The grey area is a habitat for toxic independents,
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. — Edward R Murrow, American journalist America, reportedly, is being attacked by the cancel culture destroying reputations and careers, censoring and banning patriotic and contrary viewpoints on social media. Academic freedom and intellectual interchange in higher education has not been
A constitution should be construed with less rigidity and more generosity than other statutes. — Justice Nik Hashim, Federal Court, Malaysia Malaysia’s Federal Constitution (FC), once sanctimoniously dubbed the “document of destiny,” was initially developed as a document of harmony inviting “a certain set of principles of constitutional interpretation which
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. – Milton Friedman, American economist There are some strangely structured governments whose outlandish policies shockingly define the electorate’s naiveté and gullibility coerced, cajoled and guided by open-ended laws, rules and regulations meant to tacitly confuse and confound.
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