Captive Phrases

professor Lawrence Lessig. But, he adds, "There's a difference between what you can legally do, what you can technically do, and what you ought to do.

so much more than her marital prospects.

 empower communities, not corporations.

When the bullying goes beyond meanness, criminal accountability is the ultimate consequence

While correlation is not necessarily causation

 I'm one of the actors, not one of the observers."

the sleeping souls of your ancestors are calling out to you

pithy aperçus

we saved her from the river and she ended up in the sea.

impulse for renewal

his life was a series of lapses."

reductio ad absurdum

an epic of self-delusion

progress-resistant cultural influences

ambivalence, doubt and confusion are essential to forming dynamic new hybrid selves

hidden brain

anger is born of impotence, a frustration that can melt away just by doing something about it.

the inchoate chafing at any manifestation of authority