> It makes me wonder if Snowden thinks his sacrifice was worth it.
I've always enjoyed Israel Regardie's metaphor that society is like a candle. Only a tiny fraction, the wick, needs to be lit to say that the whole thing is enlightened.
You can't change everything, and not all at once. But even a little bit of light can do a whole lot.
I've never heard that quote before, but I'm going to use it often from here on out.
Thank you for sharing that.
It made me think of a quote by Theodore Roosevelt.
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Success isn't always measured by accomplishing the goals you set out to do, but instead in the journey and experience. I think the USA needs this experience and only time will tell if this falls into the failure category.
Your quote reminds me of another from Theodore Roosevelt and one of my personal favourites, which has come to be known as 'The Man in the Arena'[1]. Not sure which TR quote came first, but one likely influenced the other by the look of it.
I've always enjoyed Israel Regardie's metaphor that society is like a candle. Only a tiny fraction, the wick, needs to be lit to say that the whole thing is enlightened.
You can't change everything, and not all at once. But even a little bit of light can do a whole lot.