Your Weekly Inspirational Quote – Moment of Truth
We are over 80 days and millions of gallons deep into the oil spill crisis. There are so many reports about injustice and incompetence displayed by BP and the federal government, it can be hard to know whether anything positive it actually happening in the Gulf.
Most recently, BP has reported that they are almost ready to execute the much-anticipated “bottom kill” tactic, and claim that it could stop the flow of oil into the Gulf before the end of the month. But as the company who’s gross negligence and lack of communication caused the deaths of 11 peoples and the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, can you really take their word for it??
That got me thinking about how truth and honesty seem to have lost their value in our society. Instead of being the first thing out of our mouths, they are often the last. Here are some quotes to ponder as we move through the next week.
“Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives… by make-believe.” ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
“We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.” ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table
“It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.” ~Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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BP what a joke. In addition to all the harm they have already caused the aftermath will go on for a very very long time. Valdez still reeks havoc in the waters of Prince Sound. Do you know after 20 years they can lift the rocks on the beaches and see black oily film and the stench of oil.
BP will FIX this? How? They have destroyed wildlife, their offspring, human lives, the potential for individuals to continue to make a living at what they know. It goes on and on.
If BP really wanted to fix this there would be masses of individuals involved. So many people we could not begin to distinguish them from the landscape. They would be flooding the beaches for cleanup, they would be flooding the waters to capture the oil, they would be flooding the offices paying claims to those that are now hungry. There would be a whole ‘nother landscape going on and it wouldn’t be just oil that we were seeing.