Todd

“When parents offer their children empathy and help them to cope with negative feelings like anger, sadness, and fear, parents build bridges of loyalty and affection.”
― John M. Gottman, Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child

“There are three paradoxes of the Christian life: You must give in order to receive, you must let go in order to possess, and you must die in order to live.”
― B.G. Lavastida Los Pinos Nuevos

“The Nature of Political Terrorism The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, did not “attack America,” as political leaders and news media in the United States have tried to maintain; they attacked American foreign policy. Employing the strategy of the weak, they killed innocent bystanders, whose innocence is, of course, no different from that of the civilians killed by American bombs in Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.”
― Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

“Nearly a half century ago, while Social-Democratic and Communist theoreticians babbled about a society with "work for all," the Dadaists, those magnificent madmen, demanded unemployment for everybody.”
― Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism