“Silence is the message, just as doing nothing is an act.

 There’s no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility.

What you do is who you are.”

Leonard Peltier, Native American, activist,

“Silence is the message, just as doing nothing is an act.

 There’s no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility.

What you do is who you are.”

Leonard Peltier, Native American, activist,

“The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.”

Karl Kraus, Austrian, journalist, 1874-1936

“Not only is there such a thing as objective truth, failing to tell the truth matters.

We can’t control whether our public servants lie to us. But we can control whether we hold them accountable for those lies

or whether, in either a state of exhaustion or to protect our own political objectives, we look the other way and normalize an indifference to truth.”

Sally Yates, former Attorney General, Quotes for Now, source

“Labour to keep alive in your Breast that Little Spark of Celestial fire Called Conscience.”

From Amor Towles “Rules of Civility” (The appendix: The Young George Washington’s Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation: Rule 110), Book quotes

“How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?”

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish, writer

Theodore Baierl, “Don Quixote Knight and Death” based on Albrecht Durer

“I prefer not to see the strength of my arm in the painting but only the poetry of my heart.”

Arshile Gorky, Russian, painter

“The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”

Salman Rushdie, writer