Lidentita Quotes & Sayings

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true. — Ai Weiwei

Horne Fisher had in him something of the aristocrat, which is very near to the anarchist. It was characteristic of him that he turned into this dark and irregular entry as casually as into his own front door, merely thinking that it would be a short cut to the house. He made his way through the dim wood for some distance and with some difficulty, until there began to shine through the trees a level light, in lines of silver, which he did not at first understand. The next moment he had come out into the daylight at the top of a steep bank, at the bottom of which a path ran round the rim of a large ornamental lake. — G.K. Chesterton

The Internet is changing the way we think of our relationship with government; it has the potential to bring to life what Abraham Lincoln said about the presidency being an instrument of the people. — Jose Antonio Vargas

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable. — Richard Dawkins

We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects. — Serge Schmemann

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. — William Shakespeare

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

To learn from their mistakes, we have to ask why they did what they did. The only helpful answer is complacency; as speculative as this may sound. They got into trouble because they did not think the rules applied to them. That attitude is wrong, and they found out the hard way that the rules apply to us all regardless of our self-confidence, experience and level of certification. — Steve Lewis