We may say broadly that free thought is the best of all safeguards against freedom. Managed in a modern style the emancipation of the slave’s mind is the best way of preventing the emancipation of the slave. Teach him to worry about whether he wants to be free, and he will not free himself. G.K..

There is only one correct answer to those Leftist intellectuals who desperately await  the arrival of a new revolutionary agent capable of instigating the long-expected radical social transformation. It takes the form of the old Hopi saying, with a wonderful Hegelian twist from substance to subject: “We are the ones we have been waiting for.”.

Our society needs citizens capable of thinking and acting on their own. People who do not shy away from critical questions because they’re afraid of being disappointed. Our society needs individuals who are able to distinguish good information from bad information and to make good decisions based on that knowledge, instead of relinquishing all personal responsibility.

Lenin concludes: “[those] who have no illusions, who do not give way to despondency, and who preserve their strength and flexibility ‘to begin from the beginning’ over and over again in approaching an extremely difficult task, are not doomed (and in all probability will not perish).” This is Lenin at his Beckettian best, echoing the.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. Thomas Paine (1776) Common Sense

TED – Sarah Kay: If I Should Have a Daughter I stumbled across Sarah Kay’s TED performance in early 2012 and whenever I need a boost, this is the video I dig out. Enjoy it in every way that I do.