The Drapery Falls

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. --Friedrich Nietzsche Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. –John Adams "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."--Thomas Paine "I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such." -- Malcolm X A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. --Albert Einstein