“Because I don’t like other bastards making decisions that affect my life when they so clearly don’t know what they are doing… I just don’t like the idea of people making decisions as to how I am going to live my life without some sort of input into it.”
"And that is a quick and easy way to do politics. Incite fear. It's the oldest trick in the book, but it is the most harmful, and the most damaging... I wish so much that we can turn to those more optimistic, hopeful, and inclusive responses to problems rather than the fear that we see people reach to.”
- Dame Jacinda Ardern talking to Oprah Winfrey about her new book, A Different Kind of Power.
Some are asking: Has Dame Jacinda
had a lobotomy?
"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is." - WINSTON CHURCHILL
“It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert they are the only source of truth” – adapted from Charles Darwin
“No one will understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected & re-elected are number 1 and number 2. Whatever is number 3 is far behind.”
– Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell is an American economist, writer, and social theorist who currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is known for his old-fashioned assessments of economic theories and has authored over 30 books. He is considered one of the greatest African-American thinkers of his generation.
