Quotes

[boomerchick]

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash, your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them.

William Faulkner

[AtomHeartMother]

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
everyone you meet
All that you slight
everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
Roger Waters

[Mech]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

-- President John F. Kennedy



Numbers are not critical to any struggle. Strength and purpose are.

-- Mahatma Gandhi


The outward freedom that we shall attain, will be only in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment.

-- Ghandi


A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

-- President John F. Kennedy



Fear spreads numerically; but Love spreads exponentially.

-- Ken Carey


Through the power of the human heart,
We have the power to free ourselves.

-- Dennis Kucinich


"A free people should be armed and disciplined and ought to have sufficient arms and ammunition to protect themselves from all who might abuse them, including their own government."

-- George Washington


What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. Our LIFE is the creation of our MIND."

-- Buddha


Political independence, without economic independence, is but an illusion.

-- Kwame Nkrumah


"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

-- Martin Luther

[Mech]

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

-- Margaret Mead



"Your silence will not protect you."

-- Audre Lorde




There is Tranquility in Ignorance, but Servitude is its Partner.

-- George Duisman





"The world shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

-- Anais Nin



And remember, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"

-- Mahatma Gandhi



We cannot all do great things, But we can do small things with great love.

-- Mother Teresa




Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

-- Thomas Jefferson




Matter is Energy. Energy is Light. We are all Light Beings.

-- Albert Einstein

[Mech]

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

-- T.S. Eliot




The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

-- John Locke



The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. Alan Ashley

-- Pitt




Where will we all be in December 2012? All together.....all together.

-- Terence McKenna




Things go better with Coke.

-- George W. Bush



Government as an entity is far too dangerous to be tolerated any more than absolutely necessary.

-- The Hunter, The Sierra Times



Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals.

-- O Pioneer



Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance.

-- Nicola Tesla




Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest.

-- Mark Twain





Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.

-- Ayn Rand





Patriotism is not a crime, dissent does not constitute terrorism, and enslavement will NEVER be an option.

-- by Talon News



None are more hopelessly enslaved, than those who falsely believe themselves to be free.

-- Goethe




"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power."

-- Benito Mussolini

[Mech]

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic... The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."

-- Dr Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence



"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

-- Buckminster Fuller




It is enough that the people know there was an election;. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

-- Joseph Stalin



Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism and find criticism subversive.

-- Henry Steele Commager, American author & historian



In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot...

-- Mark Twain




The first casualty when war comes, is Truth.

-- Senator Hiram Johnson (1917)



Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm…

-- Ralph Waldo Emmerson



"Why of course the people don't want war.... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

-- Goering



The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or instilling fear of foreign agression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

-- Herman Hess-Author (1877-1962)



Freedom is greater than silver and gold.

-- Written on the walls of the Town Hall Center, Basle, Switzerland, 1500's.



Mental floss prevents Truth decay.

-- Frank Zappa



Knowledge is a vibration and the more you know, the higher your vibration will be.

-- Wistancia Stone



Never Give up No matter what is going on Never Give up Develop the heart Too much energy in your country is spent developing the mind instead of the heart Be compassionate Work for peace and I say again Never Give up No matter what is happening No matter what is going on around you Never Give up

-- Dali Lama



The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

-- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)



Truth is often stranger than fiction because fiction is obliged to make sense.

-- Mark Twain



I wish it were as easy to stop hating, as it was to start.

-- Captain Picard from "Star trek".




All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher, 1788-1860

[Mech]

Time is too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

-- Henry Van Dyke


"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate (but) that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light - not our darkness - that frightens us. We ask ourselves Who am I to be brilliant/gorgeous/talented/fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be! You are a child of god Your playing small does not save the world. We are born to manifest the glory of God within us. (It is) within everyone."

-- Marianne Williamson



When the power of Love overcomes the love of power, The world will know peace.

-- Jimi Hendrix


Allow me to control the issue (of currency) and the nation's money and I care not who makes its laws!

-- Amshell Rothschild



There ought to be limits to freedom.

-- George W. Bush



"Choose the government that you want, rather than letter the Americans choose rulers they want."

-- Dr. Mohamed Mossaad, Cairo, Egypt




"One who keeps silent and does not say the Truth is a silent satan."

-- The Prophet (Islam)




"We cannot allow the state an autocratic right to govern outside the Constitution."

-- Boyd E. Graves, J.D.



Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

-- Dalai Lama


It is ridiculous that we think of establishing peace in the world---through war. Fear cannot lead us to peace.

-- John Paily, Scientist

[AtomHeartMother]

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. I am Caesar.– Anonymous, circa ?

"I do not know what the third world war will be fought with,
but the fourth world war will be fought with sticks and stones."
--Albert Einstein

[Mech]

"Let me tell you why you are here. You are here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you can feel it. You've felt it your entire life.That there is something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is-but it is there,like a splinter in your mind..driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what i'm talking about?"

"The Matrix?"

Do you want to know WHAT it is? The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around you, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes.It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."

"What truth?"

"That you are a slave Neo....Like everyone else you were born into bondage.Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch - a prison...for your mind.
Unfortunately...no one can be told what the matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."

"I'm trying to free your mind Neo....But I can only show you the door> You're the one that has to walk through it."

Morpheus --"The Matrix"

[JerseyBluEyz]

Great quotes everyone - I love quotes! Here are some from A Course in Miracles.


Doubt is the result of conflicting wishes.
Be sure of what you want,
and doubt becomes impossible.


Nothing is difficult that is wholly desired.


It is still up to you to choose
to join with truth or with illusion.
But remember that to choose one
is to let go of the other.


Pain is illusion;
joy, reality.
Pain is but sleep;
joy is awakening.
Pain is deception;
joy alone is truth.
And so again we make
the only choice that ever can be made;
we choose between illusions and truth,
or pain and joy,
or hell and Heaven.


Truth can only be experienced.
It cannot be described
and it cannot be explained.


How can a fact be fearful
unless it disagrees
with what you hold more dear than truth.


The search for truth is but the honest searching out
of everything that interferes with truth.
Truth is.
It can neither be lost nor sought nor found.
It is there, wherever you are, being within you.
Yet it can be recognized or unrecognized.


Merely by being what it is,
does truth release you
from everything that it is not.


Reality cannot “threaten” anything except illusions,
since reality can only uphold truth.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.


Whatever you accept into your mind
has reality for you.
It is your acceptance of it
that makes it real.
Release your mind,
and you will look upon a world released.

[AtomHeartMother]

That's some great stuff JBE! The one I found today doesn't even touch, but here it is:
Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, "War is an evil inasmuch as it produces more wicked men than it takes away." So much for the measures nature takes to lead the human race, considered as a class of animals, to her own end: Immanuel Kant


SHINE ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!