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There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity. ”
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. ”
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. ”
The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities. ”
Our human experience, like the World War II Ultra code-breaking machine, catches the heavy traffic of messages about what we really do and what is done to us every day. ”
The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life. ”
We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief. ”
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. ”
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies. ”
Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being trapped on benefits, being robbed of the dignity of work, and shut out from the choices that brings. ”