We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. -Ursula K. Le Guin

MUY GRANDE CABO VERDE

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings. -Helen Keller

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. -Søren Kierkegaard

this will probably provoke an act of absurd presence on the part of the orange wannabe king, but: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

For all the manufactured Republican versus Democrat drama that dominates today's cable news and political rhetoric, the most striking feature of our present-day democracy is not partisan divide-it's a corrupt system that protects incumbents from the consequences that real democracy brings. -L James

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. -William Pitt

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. -Abraham Lincoln

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. -Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière)

You cannot fix people who will not take feedback, because from their perspective, they do not have a problem. -Henry Cloud

1/2 " Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices..."

1/2 "I surveyed the country that had cost us so much trouble, anxiety and blood, and that now caused me to be a prisoner of war. I reflected upon the ingratitude of the whites when I saw their fine houses, rich harvests and everything desirable around them;.."

1/2 "I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard..."

They ordered the extermination of all minds they couldn't control -Tupac Shakur

#RecommendedReading: Memory Wars: Settleers and Natives remember Washington’s Sullivan Expedition of 1779 -by A. Lynn Smith (University of Nebraska Press, 2023)

They never talk about the environment anymore. You know why? [...] It’s one of the great scams of all time. -Donald J. Trump

I know words. I have the best words. -Donald J. Trump

Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was. The Battle of Gettysburg, what an unbelievable―I mean, it was so much and so interesting, and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways. Gettysburg wow. -Donald J. Trump

I love the poorly educated. -Donald J. Trump

I wouldn't mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan. -Donald J. Trump

#LecturaRecomendada: CUERVOS - un retrato por Cord Riechelmann (traducción de Nicolás Gelormini) A. Hache, 2026

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person. -Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes it’s difficult to accept, to recognize one’s own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that. -Mikhail Gorbachev

foto: Martín Cutino

#RecommendedViewing: “Four Faces West” (1948) directed by Alfred E. Green