mariokiefer1 day ago1 minCruel Kindness“Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?” ~ Frank Herbert, Dune #FavoriteQuotes
mariokieferMay 91 minOh, Goodness!“But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always...
mariokieferMay 21 minWasted Perfection“It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of...
mariokieferApr 251 minAn Honest Living“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and...
mariokieferApr 181 minBliss“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him” ~Galileo Galilei
mariokieferApr 111 minHunger“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, ‘Make us your slaves, but feed us.’” ~The Grand Inquisitor, From The...
mariokieferApr 41 minCome Back to Jamaica"For Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way its impact has been the pandemic. ... We...
mariokieferMar 281 minServitude“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers...
mariokieferMar 211 minNo Sin“Dost Thou know that the ages will pass, and humanity will proclaim by the lips of their sages that there is no crime, and therefore no...
mariokieferMar 141 minGang Wars“Perhaps . . . that’s all that government is — just a gang with the most men, the most money, and the better arms.” ~ the character,...
mariokieferMar 71 minUkraine“So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful...
mariokieferFeb 281 minPower"We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing ... The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came...
mariokieferFeb 211 minHallmark“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime . . .” — Supreme Court Justice...
mariokieferFeb 141 minIdeas“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” — Joseph Stalin General...
mariokieferFeb 71 minThe Birth of Fury“It was in my anger that she was conceived. And it was in my rage that she was born. Through that anger; through that rage, I invited...
mariokieferJan 311 minHumane“. . .it was easier to be humane when one was not human.” ~ the character Nergal from “The Fifth” #FavoriteQuotes
mariokieferJan 241 minPermits“Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit.” - Robert A. Heinlein, Author, ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’. #FavoriteQuotes
mariokieferJan 171 minSecrecySecrecy begets tyranny. ~Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land #FavoriteQuotes
mariokieferJan 101 minInsanity"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~often attributed to Albert Einstein, but also to...
mariokieferJan 31 minNice Fellas“Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t...