Quotes
Would you like to liberate yourself from the lower realms of life? Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness.
~ Lao tzu
Insanity in individuals is something rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
~ Nietzsche
The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.
~ Prophet Muhammad
If we’d been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe.
~ A church sign in Northern Ireland
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way; stop participating in it.
~ Noam Chomsky
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy.
~ David Korten
Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. 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.
~ Nazi Hermann Goering
The modern conservative is engaged in one man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
~ John K. Galbraith
Before you speak, ask yourself… does it improve on the silence?
~ Shirdi Sai Bab
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
~ Bertrand Russell
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered.
~ Dorothy Thompson
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
~ Albert Einstein
You exist only in what you do.
~ Federico Fellini
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
~ Ben Lindsay
(the words and life we have today of Jesus have been highly manipulated and censored. this is a fact)
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
~ Voltaire
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
~ Native American saying
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst stage, an intolerable one.
~ Thomas Paine
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
~ Juvenal
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
~ Karl Kraus
We are condemned to kill time: thus we die bit by bit.
~ Octavio Paz
While the word is yet unspoken, you are master of it; when once it is spoken, it is master of you.
~ Arab proverb
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
~Mohandas Gandhi
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The vast majority of mankind is trapped within perceptual prisons.
~ Shawn Mikula
