John Updike's poem about neutrinos

The Earth is just a silly ball

To them through which they pass

Like dustmaids down a drafty hall

Or photons through a sheet of glass.

We are rooted just like the trees.

For us, truly, there are no surroundings. I can lose my hands and still live. I can lose my legs and still live. I can lose my eyes and still live... But if I lose the air I die. If I lose the sun I die. If I lose the plants and animals I die. All this things are more part of me. more essential to my every breath, than is my so called body. What is my real body?

We are not autonomous self-sufficient beings as European methodology teaches... We are rooted just like the trees. But our roots come out of our nose and mouth, like an umbilical chord forever connected to the rest of the world.

Jack B. Forbes, Professor Emerits of Native American Studies U.C. Davis

Charles Bukowski On Censorship

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see. If I write of "sadism" it is because it exists, I didn't invent it, and if some terrible act occurs in my work it is because such things happen in our lives. I am not on the side of evil, if such a thing as evil abounds. In my writing I do not always agree with what occurs, nor do I linger in the mud for the sheer sake of it. Also, it is curious that the people who rail against my work seem to overlook the sections of it which entail joy and love and hope, and there are such sections. My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the "light" and never mentioned the other, then as an artist I would be a liar.

Read more: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/10/charles-bukowski-on-censorship.html

Prof. Douglas Husak of Rutgers pointed out:

The war, after all, cannot really be a war on drugs, since drugs cannot be arrested, prosecuted, or punished. The war is against persons who use drugs. As such, the war is a civil war, fought against the 28 million Americans who use illegal drugs annually.

Read more: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13772

For Marx

"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness."

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_consciousness