"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

No Sense Questioning A Guilty Man

" I, too, was taken to such a questioning..... He was required by law to ask what complaints I had about the conduct of the interrogation and whether coercion had been used or any violations of my legal rights had occurred. But it had been a long time since prosecutors ask such questions. And what if they had? After all, the existence of the entire Ministry building with its thousands of rooms, and of all five thousand of the ministry's other interrogation buildings, railroad cars, caves, and dugouts scattered throughout the Soviet Union, was based on violation of legal rights. And it certainly wasn't up to Lieutenant Colonel Kotov and me to reverse that whole process...."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago. Vol 1. 
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