"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."
~Rabindrath Tagore
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
~Kahlil Gibran
"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful."
~Ninon de L'Enclos
"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."
~Chinese Proverb
"I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong."
~George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell
"Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head."
~Garrison Keillor
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
~ Franz Kafka
"The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth."
~ Lord Shaftesbury
"When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go."
~ Timothy Ray Miller
__________________________________________
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
"Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated."
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. ... Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
"The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. The tough-minded individual is astute and discerning. He has a strong austere quality that makes for firmness of purpose and solidness of commitment.
Who doubts that this toughness is one of man's greatest needs? Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state, sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time — the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression....If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
"The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold."
"This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind....When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality."
"We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation."
"As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery."
"When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
"It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence."
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
"Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated."
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. ... Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
"The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. The tough-minded individual is astute and discerning. He has a strong austere quality that makes for firmness of purpose and solidness of commitment.
Who doubts that this toughness is one of man's greatest needs? Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state, sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time — the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression....If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
"The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold."
"This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind....When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality."
"We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation."
"As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery."
"When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
"It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence."
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Saturday, 29 August 2009
Quotes for a Culture of Peace
"The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative."
~ Vandana Shiva
"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
~ Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
"War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable."
~ Charles Sumner
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own"
~ Marilyn Vos Savant
"We desire peace - and that is why we have never resorted to physical force. We crave for justice - and that is why we are so persistent in the struggle for our rights. We seek freedom of convictions - and that is why we have never attempted to enslave man's conscience, nor shall we ever attempt to do so. We are fighting for the right of the working people to association and for the dignity of human labor. We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity."
~ Lech Walesa
"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
~ George Washington
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
~ Elie Wiesel
"There is no freedom without justice.”
~ Simon Wiesenthal
"If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present."
~ Mairead Corrigan Maguire
"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . ."
~ Nelson Mandela
"It is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological and material costs of war are so high that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes of individual and collective violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination. We must construct a new set of values and attitudes to replace the culture of war which, for centuries, has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded."
~ Federico Mayor
"It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
~ Robert F. Kennedy
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr
"We have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put an end to poverty and racial injustice."
~ Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
~ Vandana Shiva
"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
~ Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
"War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable."
~ Charles Sumner
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own"
~ Marilyn Vos Savant
"We desire peace - and that is why we have never resorted to physical force. We crave for justice - and that is why we are so persistent in the struggle for our rights. We seek freedom of convictions - and that is why we have never attempted to enslave man's conscience, nor shall we ever attempt to do so. We are fighting for the right of the working people to association and for the dignity of human labor. We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity."
~ Lech Walesa
"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
~ George Washington
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
~ Elie Wiesel
"There is no freedom without justice.”
~ Simon Wiesenthal
"If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present."
~ Mairead Corrigan Maguire
"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . ."
~ Nelson Mandela
"It is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological and material costs of war are so high that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes of individual and collective violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination. We must construct a new set of values and attitudes to replace the culture of war which, for centuries, has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded."
~ Federico Mayor
"It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
~ Robert F. Kennedy
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr
"We have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put an end to poverty and racial injustice."
~ Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
Friday, 21 August 2009
War Quotes
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
~Abraham Lincoln
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
~A. J. P. Taylor
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
~Benjamin Franklin
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
~Benjamin Franklin
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
~Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
~Bertrand Russell
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?
~Blaise Pascal
Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed.
~Bruce Springsteen
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
~Charles V of France
After victory, you have more enemies.
~Cicero
You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
~Condoleeza Rice
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
~Ernest Hemingway
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
~General Douglas MacArthur
I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
~General Douglas MacArthur
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood...War is hell.
~General William Tecumseh Sherman
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~George Orwell
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
~George Orwell
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~George Orwell
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
~George W. Bush
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
~James Madison
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
~James Madison
Man was/is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One who believes himself the master of others is nonetheless a greater slave than they.
~Jean Jaques Rousseau
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
~Jimmy Carter
The coward threatens when he is safe.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
~John F. Kennedy
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
~John F. Kennedy
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
~Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
~Mahatma Gandhi
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind. In the long run, the sword is always defeated by the mind.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
~Noam Chomsky
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
~R. Buckminster Fuller
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
~Senator John McCain
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
~Sigmund Freud
If you kill one person you are a murderer. If you kill ten people you are a monster. If you kill ten thousand you are a national hero.
~Vassilis Epaminondou
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~Voltaire
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
~William Colby, former CIA director
The greatest crime since World War II has been US foreign policy.
~William Ramsey Clark
~Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
~Abraham Lincoln
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
~A. J. P. Taylor
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
~Benjamin Franklin
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
~Benjamin Franklin
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
~Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
~Bertrand Russell
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?
~Blaise Pascal
Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed.
~Bruce Springsteen
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
~Charles V of France
After victory, you have more enemies.
~Cicero
You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
~Condoleeza Rice
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
~Ernest Hemingway
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
~General Douglas MacArthur
I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
~General Douglas MacArthur
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood...War is hell.
~General William Tecumseh Sherman
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~George Orwell
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
~George Orwell
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~George Orwell
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
~George W. Bush
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
~James Madison
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
~James Madison
Man was/is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One who believes himself the master of others is nonetheless a greater slave than they.
~Jean Jaques Rousseau
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
~Jimmy Carter
The coward threatens when he is safe.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
~John F. Kennedy
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
~John F. Kennedy
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
~Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
~Mahatma Gandhi
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind. In the long run, the sword is always defeated by the mind.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
~Noam Chomsky
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
~R. Buckminster Fuller
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
~Senator John McCain
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
~Sigmund Freud
If you kill one person you are a murderer. If you kill ten people you are a monster. If you kill ten thousand you are a national hero.
~Vassilis Epaminondou
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~Voltaire
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
~William Colby, former CIA director
The greatest crime since World War II has been US foreign policy.
~William Ramsey Clark
Albert Einstein Quotes
• "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
• "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
• "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
• "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
• "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
• "A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
• "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
• "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
• "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
• "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
• "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
• "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
• "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
• "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
• "A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
• "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
• "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
• "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
• "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
Monday, 29 June 2009
Spiritual Quotes
“We are the power in everyone,
We are the dance of the moon and the sun,
We are the hope that will never hide,
We are the turning of the tide.”
The summer solstice power chant
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Hendrix
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite”
William Blake
“We see things not as they are but as we are.”
H M Tomlinson
“Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.”
Albert Einstein
"The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten. Rather, they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration, to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable."
Vince Lombardi
Economics Quotes
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
US President Thomas Jefferson
(In the debate over the Re-charter of the Bank Bill 1809)
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
US President Woodrow Wilson
(A few years after he had signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act)
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing... Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."
Josiah Stamp
Director of the Bank of
"Each and every time a bank makes a loan (or purchases securities), new bank credit is created — new deposits — brand new money... Broadly speaking, all new money comes out of a Bank in the form of loans. As loans are debts, then under the present system all money is debt."
Governor of the Central Bank of
“We have in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. They are not government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of the
What king ever robbed his subjects to such an extent as the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks have robbed us? I think it can hardly be disputed… that the control over our gold and our credit power through the Federal Reserve System has fallen into the hands of powerful international financiers. Those 12 private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this country by bankers who came here from
Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932
Referring to the Great Depression :
“It was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence… The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge rulers of us all”
Congressman Louis T. McFadden
( Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency from 1920 to 1931 .There were two attempts on McFadden's life, a failed shooting and an apparent poisoning that made him "violently ill" after attending a political banquet in Washington. source : Robert Edward Edmondson, Pelley's Weekly, October 14, 1936)
"I care not what the politics of a nation are, give me control of it's money supply and I will decide it's politics"
Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812)
Founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty
"This new law [the Federal Reserve Act] will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. It may not do so immediately, but ... if the trusts can get another period of inflation, they figure they can unload the stocks on the people at high prices during the excitement and them bring on a panic and buy them back at low prices... The people may not know it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed."
Congressman Lindberg. December 22, 1913.
"Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry, and commerce ... and when you realize that the system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation, and depression originate."
US President James Garfield. 1881
(James Garfield was assasinated in 1881)
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946
Founder of Keynesian Economic theory
On Recessions :
“By this means government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people and not one man in a million will detect the theft”
John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946
Founder of Keynesian Economic theory
Freedom Quotes
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
Benjamin Franklin
"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."
Goethe
"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men."
John F. Kennedy
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
Voltaire
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds"
Bob Marley
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
U.S. President James Madison 1751-1836
Benjamin Franklin
"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."
Goethe
"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men."
John F. Kennedy
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
Voltaire
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds"
Bob Marley
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
U.S. President James Madison 1751-1836
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
