16-02-2022, 01:07 PM
“Wherever you live in this country’, she says “we want you to be part of building its future and if you’re not, that is a problem for all of us, because we miss out on what you’re capable of. So what is it we can give you that lets you go out & take the world on rather than be fearful of it?”
Stella Creasy, Brit. MP.
I must belong somewhere, Jonathan Dean
"When Theresa May made her first party conference speech as Prime Minister, she said that if you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.
It is worth noting that, in Germany in 1933, someone said “It is a small rootless, international clique that is turning the people against each other – that does not want them to have peace. It is people who are at home both nowhere & everywhere – who do not have anywhere a soil on which they have grown up.”
That person was Adolf Hitler.
I put May’s speech to Stella. “A citizen of the world, for me, is about compassion” she says “And my worry is she’s trading off patriotism against compassion. Compassion & tolerance always used to be a very proud British value & she’s stripping that out.”
Stella Creasy, Brit. MP.
I must belong somewhere, Jonathan Dean
“I now signified that it was imperatively necessary I should be relieved of her prescence.”
Isn’t that a wonderfully elegant way of saying ‘pi** off?!’
(Charlotte Bronte, Villette.)
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
“It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away that he is entitled to them & whatever they can buy, & fancies himself cock of the walk.”
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Stella Creasy, Brit. MP.
I must belong somewhere, Jonathan Dean
"When Theresa May made her first party conference speech as Prime Minister, she said that if you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.
It is worth noting that, in Germany in 1933, someone said “It is a small rootless, international clique that is turning the people against each other – that does not want them to have peace. It is people who are at home both nowhere & everywhere – who do not have anywhere a soil on which they have grown up.”
That person was Adolf Hitler.
I put May’s speech to Stella. “A citizen of the world, for me, is about compassion” she says “And my worry is she’s trading off patriotism against compassion. Compassion & tolerance always used to be a very proud British value & she’s stripping that out.”
Stella Creasy, Brit. MP.
I must belong somewhere, Jonathan Dean
“I now signified that it was imperatively necessary I should be relieved of her prescence.”
Isn’t that a wonderfully elegant way of saying ‘pi** off?!’
(Charlotte Bronte, Villette.)
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
“It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away that he is entitled to them & whatever they can buy, & fancies himself cock of the walk.”
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)