Den Acker pflegen ist ein Ding, den Acker besitzen ein zweites. Und diese beiden Dinge dürfen nicht durcheinandergebracht werden. In Sachen des Eigentums ist das Recht des ersten Besitzers unsicher und schlecht begründet. Das Recht der Eroberung hingegen ruht auf soliden Grundlagen. Es ist allein zu achten, weil es allein sich Achtung erzwingt.
Anatole France: Die Insel der Pinguine
Norwegians love per capita statistics, for the simple reason that many indicators when divided by a small population will make Norway rank relatively high.
Why We Oppose Votes for Men
1. Because man’s place is the army.
2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it.
3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to them.
4. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms, uniforms and drums.
5. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit for the task of government.
Alice Duer Miller, National American Woman Suffrage Association (1915)
It is a, it is a huge problem. I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough.
Nonviolence refuses to recognize that it can only work for privileged people, who have a status protected by violence, as the perpetrators and beneficiaries of a violent hierarchy.
