The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.
Michael C. Hall is an incredibly detailed actor who can convey so much with just an eyebrow.
We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them.
Don't blame America for the thousands of Cubans who have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned by Castro for peacefully protesting the regime.
