"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. "
- Buddha
"Each time a person 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, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
- Robert F. Kennedy
"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."
- Adlai Stevenson
"We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word."
- Adlai Stevenson
"Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves."
- Mohammed
"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair."
- Henry Louis Mencken
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."
- Thomas Paine
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
- Marian Wright Edelman
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
- Paulo Freire
"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
- Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970s
"An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things."
- Bryant H. McGill
"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change."
- Henry Steele Commager
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
- Kahlil Gibran
"What Civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in."
- Terrence McKenna
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
- Oscar Wilde
"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot."
- Anatole France
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves."
- Carl Jung
"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."
- Aristotle
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
- Robert F. Kennedy
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
- Edmund Burke
"Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves."
- Bonaro W. Overstreet
"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing."
- Maria Mitchell
"Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being."
- David Steindl-Rast
"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true."
- Buddha
"You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power."
- Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
"Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed."
- Barry Goldwater
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
- Kahlil Gibran
"If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength."
- Frances de Sales
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
- Benjamin Spock
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress"
- Frederick Douglass
"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to."
- Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."
- Bertrand Russell
"I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave."
- H. L. Mencken
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Jung
"We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too."
- Mairead Maguire
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
- Martin Luther King, jr.
"It is the duty of men to appraise others only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and so do we call the man, from his works."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."
- H. Jackson Browne
"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves."
- Eric Hoffe
"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."
- Noam Chomsky
"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
"It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment."
- Elie Wiesel
"School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is."
- Ivan Illich
"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
"The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with."
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Albert Einstein
"Fear knocked upon the door, faith got up to open it, and there was nobody there. " - Anon
"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet" - Keith Richards
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth." - Frank Zappa
"Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery." - Lawana Blackwell
"Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent." - Epictetus
"When men differ, both sides ought equally be heard by the public, for when truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter" - Benjamin Franklin
"This forced me to look into the question of vaccination further, and the further I looked the more shocked I became. I found that the whole vaccine business was indeed a gigantic hoax. Most doctors are convinced that they are useful, but if you look at the proper statistics and study the instances of these diseases you will realize that this is not so. My final conclusion after forty years or more in this business [medicine] is that the unofficial policy of the World Health Organization and the unofficial policy of the 'Save the Children's Fund' and other vaccine promoting organizations is one of murder and genocide. I cannot see any other possible explanation. You cannot immunize sick children, malnourished children, and expect to get away with it. You'll kill far more children than would have died from natural infection."
- Dr Kalokerinos MD
"To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day." - Alex Noble
"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."- Kahlil Gibran
"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other."
- Carl Shurz
"Only do what your heart tells you."
- Princess Diana
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."
- Bertrand Russell
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
- Dorothy Thompson
"Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
- Eugene V. Debs
"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."
- James Thurber
"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self."
- Confucius
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
- Anais Nin
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." - Maya Angelou
"One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings"
- Franklin Thomas
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling 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"
- Albert Einstein
"Life is in a constant process of communication with us. Only mostly, people are too busy to notice."
- Amon
"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.”
- Hugh Miller
"A society is never in more peril than when the people lose the ability to identify a genuine threat to personal liberty”
- Carl Rowan
“There
is no path to peace, peace IS the path.”
- Mahatma Ghandi
"Corruption is not the problem. It’s the acceptance of corruption that’s the problem"
- Patrick Rattigan
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R Murrow
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free"
- Clarence Darrow
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."
- Morgan Scott Peck
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."
- David Brinkley
"Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character."
- Margaret Chase Smith
"That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation."
- Elizabeth Cody Stanton
"Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it -- a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals."
- Albert Schweitzer
"You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society."
- Vaclav Havel
"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
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
- Plato
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Albert Einstein
"The major block to compassion is the judgment in our minds. Judgment is the mind's primary tool of separation."
- Diane Burke
"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B."
- James Yorke
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"The future has a way of arriving unannounced." - George Will
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." - Abraham Lincoln
"Walk softly, but carry a big stick" - Theodore Roosevelt
"There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth" - Stephen Nachmanovitch
"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" - Eric Hoffer
"There will be no end to the troubles of states or to humanity itself, until philosophers become kings in this world or until those we now call kings and rulers really, truly become philosophers..." - Plato
"The Truth Shall Make You Free." - The Bible (John 8:32)
"Free election of masters does not abolish the masters nor the slaves." - Herbert Marcuse
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total of those acts will be written the history of this generation." - John F. Kennedy
"Let he who would move the world first move himself." - Socrates
"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin." - Anonymous
"The world is round and the place that may seem like the end may also be the beginning."
- Ivy Baker Priest
"The most powerful weapon on earth is a human soul on fire." - Ferdinand Foch
"The masters tools will never dismantle the masters house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change." - Audre Lorde
"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. the one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Dubois
"We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love."
- Tom Robbins
"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won." - M. Scott Peck.
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank.
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. " - Johann Von Goethe.
"The probability that we may fail in struggle ought not deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just " - Abraham Lincoln.
"If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day." - Alex Noble.
"Those who will not use their brains are no better off than those who have no brains."
- William Cooper.
"Fluoridation it is the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated and it has been perpetrated on more people than any other fraud has." - Prof. Albert Schatz, PhD. (Microbiology), Nobel Laureate and Discoverer of streptomycin.
"States are not moral agents, people are, and they can impose moral standards on powerful institutions." - Noam Chomsky
"The truth is that there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaeda. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity." - Robin Cook - Former British Foreign Secretary
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." - Mohandas Ghandi
"The course of history shows that as government grows, liberty decreases." - Thomas Jefferson
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes or dislikes." - Jawaharlal Nehru
"In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident" - Henry David Thoreau
"He who takes a stand is often wrong, but he who fails to take a stand is always wrong. " - Anon
"What a great advantage for leaders that the people do not think." - Adolf Hitler
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Meade.
"The President’s job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it."
- Douglas Adams (The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
"Any man without principles that he is ready and willing to die for at any given moment is already dead and is of no use or consequence whatsoever." - William Cooper
"One basic truth can be used as a foundation for a mountain of lies, and if we dig down deep enough in the mountain of lies, and bring out that truth, to set it on top of the mountain of lies; the entire mountain of lies will crumble under the weight of that one truth, and there is nothing more devastating to a structure of lies than the revelation of the truth upon which the structure of lies was built, because the shock waves of the revelation of the truth reverberate, and continue to reverberate throughout the Earth for generations to follow, awakening even those people who had no desire to be awakened to the truth." - Delamer Duverus
"The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating."
- Cesar Chavez
"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Marianne Williamson
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself." - Archibald Macleish
"What experience and history teach is that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles." - George Wilhelm Hegel
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood." - Kahlil Gibran
"Try not to become a man of success, try rather to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." - Henry Van Dyke
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." - William James
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Gustav Jung
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
- James Baldwin
"Well done is better than well said " - Benjamin Franklin
"To often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie
"Change your thoughts and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it." - Henry Ford
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." - Buddha
"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." - George Orwell
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." - Malcom X
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Einstein
"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. " - Jiddu Krishnamurti
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. "
- Kahlil Gibran
"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. "
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wakeup homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
- Thomas Jefferson
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"Man is in the process of changing to forms that are not of this world; grows he in time to the formless, a plane on the cycle above. Know ye, ye must become formless before ye are one with the light."
- Thoth
"If you can't speak freely, you're simply not free." - Montagraph
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." - Einstein
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
- Akhenaton
"Injustice for one is injustice for All." - Dr. Martin Luther King, jr
"Only those who know, know they don't know." - Lao Tzu
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
- Nikola Tesla
"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.” - Voltaire
"You've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” ”
- Mario Savio
"It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it” - George Carlin
"Willful ignorance, based on blind faith and adherence to a contrived and plagiarized doctrine put in place by the very people who killed the savior the doctrine claims to value, is an indescribably stupid state of mind” - Max Igan
"The only possible outcome of the purely categorizing compart-mentality, thrust upon us at school, is the loss of our creativity” - Viktor Schauberger
"People are losing their individuality, their ability to see things as they really are and thereby their connection with Nature. They are fast approaching a state of equilibrium impossible in Nature, which must force them into a total economic collapse, for no stable system of equilibrium exists. Therefore the principles upon which our actions are founded are invalid, because they operate within parameters that do not exist” - Viktor Schauberger
"Long live the fighters "- Muad Dib
“Our work is the embodiment of our will. The spiritual manifestation of this work is its effect. When such work is done properly, it brings happiness, but when carried out incorrectly, it assuredly brings misery.” – Viktor Schauberger
"How else should it be done then? was always the immediate question. The answer is simple: Exactly in the opposite way that it is done today!" - Viktor Schauberger
"Reason is your greatest tool, it creates an atmosphere of understanding, which leads to caring which is love." - Anon
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books, but rather what you see and feel in the world around you." - Buddha
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." - Ghandi
"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained." - Emperor Haile Selassie I
"The Cosmos is a single living creature which contains all living creatures within it." - Plato
"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice." - Confucius
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." - William James
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." - Mark Twain
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." - Henry David Thoreau
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
"Life is an unbroken succession of false situations." - Thorton Wilder
"I don’t want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire an attorney to tell me how to do what I want to do" - J P Morgan
"It seems the purpose of the so-called educational system is not to educate us to be free-thinking natural beings, but rather to distort what is really going on in the world and also convince us that we will be happy if we just get a good education in order to get a good job in order to make a lot of money in order to buy as many worthless items as possible, and thereby become dependent upon them, in order to create as much debt as possible, thereby enslaving us on all counts" - Mary Croft
"In accumulating property for ourselves or our children, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident" - Henry David Thoreau
"There is nothing to fear about the imminent collapse of the global financial prison." - David Icke
"The most important thing we will ever learn is who we are, and this will require that we change our minds about who we think we are. This will require that we throw out everything we think we know and replace it with what we have intuitively always known. We must listen only to what our intuition intends for us" - Mary Croft
"Can we afford to be so arrogant as to pretend we know something we don’t know, the knowing of which could transform our lives" - Werner Erhard
"Many people have ruined their lives when they could have prevented it but for want of opening their minds." - Mary Croft
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing" - Albert Einstein
"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem"
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa
"I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong." - John Lennon
"A mind that is in its natural state of order, is in harmony with the universe and such a mind is timeless." - Time
"The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart." - Manly P Hall
"Do not believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Claud Cockburn
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Ghandi
"All the war propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." - George Orwell
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it."
- Martin Luther King Jr
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge."
- Stephen Hawking
"There is a crisis in the world, it is a crisis of consciousness." - Jiddu Krishamurti
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
