The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms read more

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and read more

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of read more

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love read more

Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.