162nd.

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan




Photo is "Words and Opinions" - from Rickz0r.

161st.

"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence." - Sholem Asch




Photo is "Forgetting the Way Home VI" - from wroth.

160th.

"You cannot hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid." - Franz Kafka




Photo is "Relics of Suffering" - from positively.

159th.

"Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader." - Aristotle




Photo is "Tyranny of the Majority" - from XxPantherNovaXx.

158th.

"If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man." - Chief Seattle




Photo is "When the Beasts Have Gone" - from GudStufPhotography.

157th.

"I must go down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over." - John Masefield




Photo is "A Sea of Dreams" - from foureyes.

156th.

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel




Photo is "Protest" - from itsyouforme.