The Great Quotes thread

[Rhogar]

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are,what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine"

William Blum(Former US State Department Employee)

[James]

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

-Rabindranath Tagore

[Ron Mauer Sr]

"When one door closes then another door opens." author unknown


"When one door closes then another door opens, you have ghosts." author unknown.

[Caliban]

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is….Most people love you for who you pretend to be….To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense…It's true, we're locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image – they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.

Jim Morrison

[Franny]

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let us teach our children to be thinkers. ~ Jacques Fresco

What sane person could live in this world and not be a little crazy? ~ Usula LeGuin

I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange. ~ Sigbjorn Obsterfelder

[Cara]

“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”


― W H Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

[Ron Mauer Sr]

"There are many aspects of 'New Age' philosophy that are unhealthy, perhaps the largest of which is the propensity for (and the encouragement of) cognitive dissonance.

A prime example being the propagation of ignoring those things that are a genuine problem by stating, "What you focus on, is what you create."

Actually, it is not what you create, you just need to be aware that it is what you will experience more of, so the danger is that engaging negative situations is likely to exhaust you or dampen your vibration.

The thing is, if a genuine problem exists, it doesn't go away by ignoring it, indeed, by not tackling it, the problem is free to grow unhindered.

It takes bravery to challenge the worlds greatest ills, it really is like fighting demons, and the denial of their existence is tantamount to cowardice.

So I'm sending a big cheer out to the warriors in this world, the defenders of the vulnerable, the truth-speakers and whistle-blowers."

Amora Steve Melchizadek
July 4, 2019

[Rich]

Agreed to some extent Ron, however we must look at the root cause of it, that created it in the first place, our thinking.

[Constance]

Posted by Rich (here)
Agreed to some extent Ron, however we must look at the root cause of it, that created it in the first place, our thinking.

I think this was a quote made by Amora Steve Melchizadek that Ron was referring to Rich and not Rons own thoughts

[Franny]

For Valerie

Last night I passed at the edge of darkness,
and slept with green dew, alone.
I have come a long way,
to surrender my shadow
to the shadow of my horse.

James Wright

[Franny]

What are you going to believe, what we tell you or what you see with your own eyes? ~ Groucho Marx

You can't have a planet with Christ-like beings running around. They don't pay taxes and they're completely unmanageable. ~ William Henry

Due to the absence of qualified leaders, I've decided to follow myself. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

[Franny]

Who can resist Rumi...

[Cara]

Posted by Franny (here)
Who can resist Rumi...

Or Hafiz

[petra]

Posted by Rhogar (here)
"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are,what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine"

William Blum(Former US State Department Employee)

Well this is depressing but true, perhaps I can offer a counter-quote. Here it is on a shirt...

[Franny]

Or Kabir...



Inside this clay jug there are
canyons and pine mountains.
And the maker of canyons
and pine mountains.
And seven oceans are inside,
and hundreds of millions of stars.
~ Kabir

[drneglector]

So many great quotes here, thanks. I have quite a few I want to add...

"Nature, to be commanded, must first be obeyed."
- Francis Bacon

"The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the Laws of Nature, because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever."
- Mikhail Bakunin

"The best way to learn the secrets of nature is not by inventing instruments, but by improving the investigator himself."
- Max Heindel

"Heed these words, You who wish to probe the depths of nature: If you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither will you find it outside. If you ignore the wonders of your own House, how do you expect to find other wonders? In you is hidden the Treasure of Treasures. Know Thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods."
- Delphi Oracle

"The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception."
- Georges Bataille

"Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed."
- William Blake

"It is a great mystery that, though the human heart longs for truth, in which it alone finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to truth is one of hostility and fear."
- Anthony de Mello

"There are only two mistakes one can make on the path to truth: Not starting and not going all the way."
- Buddha, on the extreme nature of truth

"As its foundation, any guide to freedom needs a thorough knowledge of why and how that freedom has been removed in the first place. Without that, there can be no answers."
- David Icke

"Accept responsibility for yourself and your actions, thoughts and words. You alone make choices. You alone are answerable to the consequences of your behavior. The feeble excuse that your boss required it, the establishment expected it, holds no truth of justification."
- David Icke

"What is the point of having principles if you allow others to dictate your behavior? At the end of the day, you will judge your performance and the contribution you have made to Creation. It will not be based on what another expected of you, or what you did because you felt trapped."
- David Icke

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
- Denis Diderot, French philosopher

"No problem can be solved by the same level of consciousness that created it."
- Albert Einstein

"They must find it difficult... those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority."
- Gerald Massey

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind if my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
- Thomas Paine

"What is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
- George Mason, Co-author of the Second Amendment

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
- Thomas Jefferson

"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson

"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... the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people f all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied."
- Thomas Jefferson

"There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot."
- President John F. Kennedy, 7 days before his assassination

"Behind the ostensible governments sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent."
- J. Edgar Hoover

"Military men are just dumb, stupid animals, to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
- Henry Kissinger

The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
- Malcom X

"If the words "life, liberty and happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."
- Terence McKenna

"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the police state dictatorship it is going to get."
- Ian Williams Goddard

"The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed."
- Paul Joseph Goebbels

"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 tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
- Hermann Goering

"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."
- Hippocrates

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
- Plato

"Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it. But those that do will become well."
- Vernon Howard

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude."
- Julian Huxley

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
- Milton Friedman

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable, and therefore, not popular."
- Carl Jung

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what is not true; the other is to refuse to accept what is true."
- Søren Kierkegaard

"The greatest conspiracies are not actually hidden, just fragmented into different pieces, like a puzzle, right before our eyes."
- Judith Moriarty

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity."
- Nikola Tesla

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire

"Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws."
- Confucius

"I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true."
- Travis Walton

"Even the extremely small radius of an atom still contains some 99.99999 per cent space."
- Nassim Haramein

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
- John Lennon

[Rhogar]

Here is a quote that describes me,how about you my friends?

"Fortunately,some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social
conditioning.They begin sensing that something is amiss and start looking for answers.Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side
of reality others are oblivious to,and so begins their journey of awakening.Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd
and by choosing the knowledge over the veils of ignorance."

Henri-Louis Bergson

[Rhogar]

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
Roy T. Bennett

and my favorite quote

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
Thomas Edison

[petra]

I really love that Edison quote, I've never heard it before!

My favorite quote is from a comedian, and I posted it here already - it also applies to thinking

[Cara]

Another marvellous one from Hafiz:

My dear,
Is it true that your mind is sometimes like a battering
Ram

Running all through the city,
Shouting so madly inside and out

About the ten thousand things
That do not matter?