MARIO KIEFER

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish...

“Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?” ~ Frank Herbert, Dune #FavoriteQuotes

“But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always...

“It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of...

“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...

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him” ~Galileo Galilei

“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...

"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...

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers...

“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...

“Perhaps . . . that’s all that government is — just a gang with the most men, the most money, and the better arms.” ~ the character,...

“So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful...

"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...

“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime . . .” — Supreme Court Justice...

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” — Joseph Stalin General...

“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...

“. . .it was easier to be humane when one was not human.” ~ the character Nergal from “The Fifth” #FavoriteQuotes

“Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit.” - Robert A. Heinlein, Author, ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’. #FavoriteQuotes

Secrecy begets tyranny. ~Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land #FavoriteQuotes

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~often attributed to Albert Einstein, but also to...