 Jun 16, 2007 Oo, mayaman ang Pilipinas. Oo, Pilipino ako. Nag-i-Ingles nga lamang. Eh ano ngayon, marami namang Filipino writers writing in English? Yun ngang mga binasa namin sa Filipino dati, puro Ingles! Pero Pilipino ang mga sumulat. Nagta-Tagalog naman ako, ah. At mahal ko ang Pilipinas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things." "I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see." "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are." "It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power." "People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich." "The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas." "What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?" "Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts." "Americans have discovered fear." "I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?" "Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are." "The difficult thing isn’t living with other people, it’s understanding them." "We live in a dark age, when freedoms are diminishing, when there is no space for criticism, when totalitarianism — the totalitarianism of multinational corporations, of the marketplace — no longer even needs an ideology, and religious intolerance is on the rise. Orwell’s ‘1984’ is already here." "Just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep." "There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything." - Jose Saramago ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi! I'm from the Ateneo de Manila University. I'm currently in my second year, and I can't imagine myself not involved in any political or social participation after I graduate (all the more after I take up law and become a lawyer). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lithium - Evanescence   May 2, 2008
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