Insightful · 26 July 2006

I was going through my dailies… I thought this was profound:

“Henry David Thoreau refused to pay the poll tax put in to support the immoral American-Mexican War, and was sentenced to a night in jail. His friend Ralph Waldo Emerson came to visit him and asked him “David, what are you doing in there?” Thoreau replied, “What are you doing out there?” If intellectuals aren’t misbehaving in the sense of dissenting and critiquing the collective grounds of our political being, then they aren’t doing their jobs.” – taken from the blog of Juan Cole

"Do what thou wilt." On the Writing of a Prayer of Praise