Self-confidence Is Not Pride. Just The Contrary:

The Question Is Wholly Other, Deeper And Equally Relevant To All: Whether We Shall, By Whatever Means, Succeed In Reconstituting The Natural World As The True Terrain Of Politics, Rehabilitating The Personal Experience Of Human Beings As The Initial Measure Of Things, Placing Morality Above Politics And Responsibility Above Our Desires, In Making Human Community Meaningful, In Returning Content To Human Speech, In Reconstituting, As The Focus Of All Social Action, The Autonomous, Integral, And Dignified Human "i."

When A Person Tries To Act In Accordance With His Conscience, When He Tries To Speak The Truth, When He Tries To Behave Like A Citizen, Even In Conditions Where Citizenship Is Degraded, It Won't Necessarily Lead Anywhere, But It Might. There's One Thing, However, That Will Never Lead Anywhere, And That Is Speculating That Such Behavior Will Lead Somewhere.

You Can't Spend Your Whole Life Criticizing Something And Then, When You Have The Chance To Do It Better, Refuse To Go Near It.

The Law Is Only One Of Several Imperfect And More Or Less External Ways Of Defending What Is Better In Life Against What Is Worse. By Itself, The Law Can Never Create Anything Better. Establishing Respect For The Law Does Not Automatically Ensure A Better Life For That, After All, Is A Job For People And Not For Laws And Institutions.

There Are Times When We Must Sink To The Bottom Of Our Misery To Understand Truth, Just As We Must Descend To The Bottom Of A Well To See The Stars In Broad Daylight.