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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The command of Christ is impossible, but it is not insane; it is rather sanity preached to a planet of lunatics.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Silence fosters oppression, but you can speak up for those without a voice. Silence traps people in shame, but your voice can communicate grace to those trapped in sin. Silence endangers and threatens to destroy delicate relationships, but you can say the words needed for healing. It’s time to speak.
Brandon Cox • Rewired: How Using Today's Technology Can Bring You Back to Deeper Relationships, Real Conversations, and the Age-Old Methods of Sharing God's Love
Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism (American Ideals & Institutions)
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sanity, after all, is only reason applied to human affairs, and when this reason, applied over years, has resulted in disaster, destruction, despair, misery, starvation, and rot, the mind is correct to abandon it.
Gene Wolfe • The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas
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It doesn’t matter to me if both of these men are mad. Their voices still have clarity.
Maggie Nelson • The Argonauts
Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism:
So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t