Thoreau Quote of the Day ...
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and... More »
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and... More »
__________ What we mean by "all men are created equal" is all human beings ought to be treated with highest respect for the truth that no two men are created equal. Mutual respect for our... More »
The issue of "independence" is always a relative one. In the fullest meaning of the word, nothing in nature is or can be entirely independent. In fact, if anything at all were entirely "independent" of... More »
How we each measure our personal freedom is complex and highly individualized. We each define freedom differently and judge how much or how little we have of it according to that definition which, as it... More »
The issue could not be simpler: imagine all you hold dearest in this moment stripped from you in the next without the merest freedom to protest the stripping. Simply, imagine your life coming to an... More »
If only one, I would undo the rule that says a voluntary "marriage" must be licensed and sanctioned by one's government and by one's culture. As I understand "marriage", genuine marriage, i.e., the voluntary and... More »
One of my favorite human beings in history and a damned good thinker and writer, Benjamin Franklin, once said, " Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such... More »