The Great Quotes thread

[Raskolnikov]

“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”

"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress."

"If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days."

Napoleon Bonapart

[Eva2]

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[Bill Ryan]

(inspired by rgray222's wonderful post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106567-Animals-are-Magical&p=1677757&viewfull=1#post1677757) on the Animals are Magical thread)

Until man learns to respect and speak to the natural world, he can never truly understand his place on this Earth.

Enzo Maiorca, legendary Italian freediver

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/DSU81vS.jpeg

[Kryztian]

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

- - Arthur C. Clarke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke)

[Raskolnikov]

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[grapevine]

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- Wilfred Owen 1893-1918[/SIZE]- Soldier and Poet


"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs

And towards our distant rest began to trudge."

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/HBcgTpx.jpeg

[Tintin]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gw4Hv5RXwAAce1u?format=png&name=900x900

[Kryztian]

As the tamed horse
still hears the call of her wild brothers
and as the farmed goose flaps hopeful wings
as his sisters fly overhead,
so too, perhaps,
the wild ones amongst us
are our only hope in calling us back
to our true nature.
Wild ones
who have not been turned to stone
by the far-reaching grasp of the empire
and its program of consumer sedation,
the killing of imagination.
Where, my friends,
have the wild ones gone?

Joel McKerrow

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/tU3039T.jpeg

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/YEi3t4L.jpeg

[Frankie Pancakes]

..........

[grapevine]

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[Raskolnikov]

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[mojorissin]

A wise man in the heaven of thought , is the focus of the universe .

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/7cxhST2.jpeg

Original: Sie sind so jung, so vor allem Anfang, und ich möchte Sie, so gut ich es kann, bitten, lieber Herr, Geduld zu haben gegen alles Ungelöste in Ihrem Herzen und zu versuchen, die Fragen selbst liebzuhaben wie verschlossene Stuben und wie Bücher, die in einer sehr fremden Sprache geschrieben sind. Forschen Sie jetzt nicht nach den Antworten, die Ihnen nicht gegeben werden können, weil Sie sie nicht leben könnten. Und es handelt sich darum, alles zu leben. Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen. Vielleicht leben Sie dann allmählich, ohne es zu merken, eines fernen Tages in die Antwort hinein.
- - - Letter to Franz Xaver Kappus, Worpswede, Bremen, 16. July 1903.

[rgray222]

The shroud of thinly veiled righteousness that cloaks the horror of war has begun to dissipate, and the revulsion and grotesqueness of war are seeping through the human carcass and it has begun saturating the soul of man. The reality of war has climbed aboard the train of human consciousness, and it is fast approaching the station of primordial repugnance. The spark of evolutionary change has been ignited in mankind, and those who fail to understand will lose their eternal inheritance.
Unknown

[Raskolnikov]

"There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes."

"The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank."

Leo Tolstoy

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/ryaQ47o.jpeg

[Raskolnikov]

Maybe we are in the new world, a truth finally came out of Cenk's mouth...

https://i0.wp.com/educationdojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/quote-voltaire-every-tyrant-fears-thinker-more-than-army.jpg?w=540&ssl=1

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/I6EKLtZ.jpeg

[Raskolnikov]

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[Kryztian]

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[Kryztian]

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Fake quote. Churchill had a deep knowledge about the history of Western Civilization and would have known about:


The crusades - several attempts by Christian countries in the 11th to 13th centuries to take over Jerusalem and the surrounding area and to suppress the Islamic control in the area.


The history of Spain from the 700s to 1492 - the control of the Iberian peninsula constantly shifted between Islam and Christianity. The areas controlled by Christians always demanded their subjects practice Christianity. The areas controlled by Islamic leaders often (but not always) were extremely tolerant of religious diversity. The city of Toledo, under Islamic control for several centuries, was were Islamic, Hebrew and Latin scholars worked to translate many of the great texts of mathematics, history, philosophy and other subjects. This all came to an end when Ferdinand and Isabella took complete control of Spain and expelled Christian and Jews.


Palestine before Zionist terrorist groups (Lehi, Irgun) started forming in the 1930s. - Palestine had a Moslem majority and thriving Christian, Jewish, Bahai and Druze minorities living there - all of them spoke Arabic. Then Ashkenazy Zionist Jews showed up and started bombing hotels, trains and other installations that had British diplomats in them - some of these people would have been acquaintances of Churchill.


If Churchill had lived longer he would have seen how Christianists in Washington D.C., members of the Project for a New American Century, planned to ruthlessly overthrow seven governments in Moslem majority countries (and actually did in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.) And he would have seen how "Jewish" (supposedly) Israel and the "Christian" (supposedly) U.S.A. worked to create "Greater Israel" on lands owned by Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and other by continuously bombing Muslim majority nations.

Not only is the above quote fake, it shows incredible ignorance of history.

The Churchill Quotation That Wasn’t
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/06/the-churchill-quotation-that-wasnt/

By Angelo Fichera

Posted on June 20, 2019

A remark about Muslims attributed to Winston Churchill continues to circulate on social media, even though there’s no evidence he ever said it.

“When Muslims are in the minority they are very concerned with minority rights, when they are in the majority there are no minority rights,” the supposed quotation reads.

Posted in a meme that includes a photo of Muslim activist Linda Sarsour, the quotation has been repeatedly reposted despite a dearth of evidence that the late British prime minister ever said anything of the sort. Churchill died in 1965.

Churchill experts also cast doubt on the veracity of the attribution.

“This ‘quote’ is widely found online but there is no documented evidence that Churchill ever said it,” Lee Pollock, trustee and adviser to the board of the International Churchill Society, told us in an email. “It does not appear in any of his many books, articles or speeches nor is there any attribution from a witness that he/she heard him say that.”

Likewise, a senior fellow at Hillsdale College’s Churchill Project, Richard M. Langworth, includes the quotation in a post titled “All the ‘Quotes’ Winston Churchill Never Said.”

[Raskolnikov]

Good onya Kryztian, you're on a roll today. I could honestly care less about Churchill, but the overall premise of the quote was spot on. I had my reservations about that one too, but sometimes ya let the ball drop. I'll admit I wasn't a history major, preferred classical literature and philosophy. History always read like bankers, lawyers and accountants drumming up endless reasons for war to keep the profits rolling in, a bad script replayed again and again. Guess I'm doomed to repeat it right? And to be blunt, our history, as it's currently written, is a complete sham, a whitewash written by the victors of war for their own purposes. Funny how the good guys always win. If we play our cards right, Israel will soon be the arbiters of truth and the beacon of morality.

[Raskolnikov]

The Churchill Quotation That Wasn’t
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/06/the-churchill-quotation-that-wasnt/

Again I have to call bs on the use of fact-checking sites. Factcheck.org is a left leaning organization with some questionable bias and funding and it stands to reason if they supported and censored "Covid misinformation" that they'd be right in line to debunk anything which speaks badly about their orchestrated illegal immigrant invasion. If they send you to a reliable source with reliable information then use that article, but the use of fact-checking sites to support your argument lost all credibility with the start of covid and "misinformation," as evidenced below:

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/factcheckorg-media-bias

FactCheck.org Moved from Center to Lean Left in AllSides August 2023 Small Group Editorial Review
In August 2023, the AllSides team conducted a Small Group Editorial Review of FactCheck.org in which we moved FactCheck.org’s bias rating from Center to Lean Left.

A small group of AllSides reviewers — one person each with a bias on the left, center, and right — reviewed content from FactCheck.org for media bias. The team noted that FactCheck.org displayed bias in terms of its story choice and the other outlets it commonly referenced, which were mostly on the left. The team also noticed FactCheck.org was more likely to fact check former President Donald Trump and other Republicans than Democratic officials, however, it did periodically fact check President Biden also.

Additionally, as of August 2023, over 16,000 AllSides readers voted on the AllSides Media Bias Rating for FactCheck.org. On average, those who disagreed with the rating of Center thought FactCheck.org showed a bias of Lean Left. The AllSides team did not review this data before conducting its Small Group Editorial Review, but readers’ sentiments appear to confirm the team’s findings.

FactCheck.org Shows Story Choice Bias
At the time of review, topics frequently covered by FactCheck.org included Donald Trump, the August 2023 GOP Debate, claims made by conservatives, COVID-19, vaccines, and climate change.

The panel noted FactCheck.org frequently analyzed claims made about vaccines or pharmaceutical companies, and it often showed favor of perspectives held by elites.

Articles reviewed included:

RFK Jr.’s COVID-19 Deceptions
Republicans Oversell Archer’s Testimony About Hunter and Joe Biden
Biden Cherry-Picks Unemployment Record
Viral Video Repeats Bogus Claim About Vaccines and Visible Ailments
High Winds, Drought Conditions Led to Maui Fires, No Evidence Intentionally Set
No Support for Viral Claim That COVID-19 ‘Lockdowns’ Are Returning This Fall
FactChecking the First GOP Debate
FactChecking Trump’s Interview with Carlson
Conservative Posts Misrepresent Royalty Payments to Fauci and Collins


FactCheck.org Ownership and Funding

Funding and ownership do not influence bias ratings. We rate the bias of content only.
Owner: Annenberg Public Policy Center

FactCheck.org is owned and operated by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, which describes itself [retrieved Sept. 2023] as a “premier communication policy center,” and is part of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

According to its “Our Funding” page [retrieved Sept. 2023], FactCheck.org discloses donations it receives that are greater than $1,000. It reported its disclosed funding for the 2023 fiscal year as follows:

Annenberg Foundation: $796,691
Facebook (Third-Party Fact-Checking Program): $339,279
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: $276,024
Individual donors: $122,183
National Science Foundation: $7,955
Facebook (National Association of Black Journalists fact-checking fellowship program): $4,244
In addition to its disclosed funding, FactCheck.org states the following:

“We do not seek and have never accepted, directly or indirectly, any funds from unions, partisan organizations or advocacy groups. We do not accept funds from corporations with the exception of Facebook, which provides funding as part of Facebook’s initiative to debunk viral deceptions, and Google, which provided a one-time grant to support our COVID-19 coverage in 2020. Neither corporation seeks nor is given any control over our editorial decisions.

Our policy is to disclose the identity of any donor who contributes $1,000 or more. We also disclose the total amount, average amount and number of individual donations.

Donors have no control over our editorial decisions.”

The one-time grant FactCheck.org received from Google was part of a Google News initiative that aimed “to produce fact checks about COVID-19 immunization misinformation and short bilingual video explainers.” It received this funding alongside television giant Univision’s Noticias Univision program.

A March 2021 press release regarding the grant said the following:

“We worked with Univision’s talented staff during the last two months of the 2020 election and we are excited to continue working with them on COVID-19 misinformation,” said Eugene Kiely, director of FactCheck.org. “Univision is the primary news source for Hispanics in the U.S. This gives us an opportunity to reach a larger and more diverse audience.”

“The pandemic and misinformation have disproportionately affected the Hispanic community,” said Jose Zamora, senior vice president of strategic communications at Univision News. “This exceptional partnership between Univision Noticias and FactCheck.org, with the support of the Google News Initiative, allows us to work with one of the most respected fact-checking platforms in the U.S. to continue and amplify our fight against misinformation and ensure that Latinos have access to accurate information. Univision Noticias is committed to serving its community through journalism and fact-checking; this partnership allows us to fulfill both purposes and our mission.”

[Kryztian]

I could honestly care less about Churchill, but the overall premise of the quote was spot on.

It's really sad that you don't care about Churchill. He was, in many ways, a great man, although he had his faults. But you are using his name to bring weight to something he never said, never would have said. You are slandering him, and you are slandering the historical truth of what he did and didn't say. But you really don't care about the truth, do you? You are much more interested in slandering Churchill to support your agenda of hatred so that you can slander a group of people and cause hatred of them. History is filled with people like you and history shows when there are societies and nations are dominated by too many people who are motivated by hatred and stupidity, bad things happen. I won't bother you with the details because you simply wouldn't be interested.

It is really, really, really easy to authenticate a quote these days on the Internet. Especially if it is by someone as quote as Churchill. Especially if the quote is a controversial. In about two minutes time on an internet to find the source of the quote, what book it is in, where he uttered the words, etc. It's really easy, even to someone with an IQ of 70. If Churchill actually said this, we would have known this decades before you posted this, we would know that date and hour and exact place he uttered these words.



The Churchill Quotation That Wasn’t
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/06/the-churchill-quotation-that-wasnt/
Again I have to call bs on the use of fact-checking sites.


Oh, good lord! :facepalm: A number of us have contributed to threads about Wikipedia, Snopes, The New York Times, etc. and how they go wrong. But we also agree, these place can often be reliable sources and the most convenient ones, if you know how to use them.

I rest my case. Some people just aren't interested in the truth when they have a deep seated need to spew venom on the rest of humanity. Many of us have worked on uncovering the truth about Corey Goode and David Wilcock and others, and have overwhelming proved they are frauds many times over. But Goode and Wilcock STILL have dedicated followers. Some people are completely immune to fact, reason, irrational discussion. Some people are totally dedicate to ugliness, hatred and the necessary lies to justify them.

[Raskolnikov]

Out of respect for this thread, and because there's nothing great the words above, my response can be found here https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?112057-Meme-Your-Memeiest-Memes-Thread&p=1681625&viewfull=1#post1681625

Back to the great quotes.

[Bill Ryan]

Humans are not evolved for modern life. We're still cave people, stuck in a modern world.

Ella Al-Shamahi, Evolutionary Biologist

[edina]

Perception is itself a form of grace.

Diane Ackerman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Ackerman),


A Natural History of the Senses (https://www.dianeackerman.com/a-natural-history-of-the-senses),
page 361 Postscript

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/yAAZ8V7.jpeg

“Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth. A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

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[Tintin]

"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity." - William Burroughs

[Sue (Ayt)]

"We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots—religion, nation, community, family, or profession—are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust."

Alvin Toffler from "Future Shock" 1970

[grapevine]

“I am the heir to Blair.”
- David Cameron -
(Said during a private dinner with newspaper executives at the Conservative Party conference in 2005, which unsurprisingly shocked his colleagues. Cameron later denied he said it but it was well documented)

[Bluegreen]

"I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam."

- Popeye

[grapevine]

“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of the pain.”

- Judith Lewis Harman, Trauma and Recovery

[Sue (Ayt)]

Early in his life, Benjamin Franklin penned his own epitaph:

The Body
of
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
Printer,

(Like the cover of an old book its contents torn out
And stript of its lettering and gilding)
Lies here food for worms;
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will (as he believed) appear once more
In a new and more beautiful edition,
Corrected and amended by
The Author.

[Bill Ryan]

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming, 1919

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

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[rgray222]

If you have a monolithic train of thought, it deteriorates the individual's ability to think or process information.
Charlie Kirk

[Sue (Ayt)]

Tao Te Ching - Feng and English, vs. 31

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools.
He uses them only when he has no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to his heart,
And victory no cause for rejoicing.
If you rejoice in victory, then you delight in killing;
If you delight in killing, you cannot fulfill yourself.

[rgray222]

You can't invite violence to the dinner table and act surprised when it starts eating

[Frankie Pancakes]

..........

[grapevine]

You were lied to when you were told that "It does not matter whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game". Winning in the world of the elite is everything. Indeed it is the only thing, The power elite intend to win.

Milton William Cooper "Behold a Pale Horse"
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[rgray222]

Charlie Kirk was not killed because he spoke; he was killed because young men and women listened.

[mojorissin]

Beyond the games people play there is only awareness , spontaneity & intimacy - from the last page of the great book by Dr Eric Berne // this is where I try to be !

[rgray222]

Violence [War] is intellectual surrender

Cenk Uygur - Young Turks

[mojorissin]

People who make no noise are dangerous ! - la fontaine

[rgray222]

These are not quotes but Russian sayings I saw the other day. I thought they were both quite clever.

Russian: V chuZHOY manasTYR’ sa svaYIM usTAvam ni HOdyat
Don’t go to someone else’s monastery with your own rulebook

Russian: Слезь с дохлой лошади
Get off a dead horse

[norman]

"without God, freedom becomes chaos" - Charlie Kirk

[Sue (Ayt)]

“The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.” — Carl Jung

[Bill Ryan]

The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth.

Chamath Palihapitiya, vice-president for user growth at Facebook before he left the company in 2011.

[Raskolnikov]

"Youth is wasted on the young."

George Bernard Shaw

[grapevine]

"Si vis pacem, para bellum!"
— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, ca. 4th century CE
Translation: “If you want peace, prepare for war.”
Many variations quoted over the years.

[Raskolnikov]

"Now in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, part of the great midcentury discovery of ancient texts, Jesus says, "The Kingdom will not come by expectation. The Kindgom of the Father is spread upon the earth, and men do not see it." Not seeing it, we live in the world as though it were not the Kingdom. Seeing the Kingdom - that is the End of the World. The connotation is transcendent of the denotation. You are not to interpret the phrase, "the End of the World" concretely. Jesus used the same kind of vocabulary that Eastern gurus use. In their full-fledged teaching mode they speak as though they were themselves what they are speaking about; that is to say, they have in their minds identified themselves with a mode of consciousness that then speaks through them."

Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That

[grapevine]

"Really, energy is the definining issue in disease"
- Derrick Lonsdale, World No1 expert in Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)

[Bill Ryan]

While the world continues to provide me with inspiration, more and more I feel like a citizen of Pompeii being asked to write funny songs about lava.

Tom Lehrer (1928—2025), Mathematics Professor at Berkeley, comedian, pianist and singer, when asked why he had stopped writing new material.

[Raskolnikov]

"The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings."

Erwin Schrodinger

[rgray222]

"War is failure of diplomacy"

Congressman John Dingell


Lao Tzu's immortal advice, we should sit down on the shore and wait for the enemy's corpse to swim past us.

Meaning - the path to non-resistance, patience and letting things unfold naturally is often the best way forward,

[mojorissin]

Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. ... But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.
"
--- Fischer

[Tintin]

Just terrific :ROFL:

Former World War 2 fighter pilot and Australian cricketer Keith Miller in an interview with Michael Parkinson:


“Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not.”

[Ewan]

Just terrific :ROFL:

Former World War 2 fighter pilot and Australian cricketer Keith Miller in an interview with Michael Parkinson:


“Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not.”

I originally read that quote as 'pleasure', not pressure.

[grapevine]

"A life is a tragedy when seen in close- up and a comedy in long-shot"
- Charlie Chaplin

[Raskolnikov]

"A life is a tragedy when seen in close- up and a comedy in long-shot"
- Charlie Chaplin

My life in a nutshell.

[Raskolnikov]

"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is respresented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."

George Orwell

[rgray222]

If man were actually in charge, the world would have been destroyed by now.
Albert Einstein

[seekingtruth]

f3kz7m_6xWU

:bigsmile:

[Bill Ryan]

I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

[Bill Ryan]

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair, 1935

[Ewan]

Il n'y a de nouveau que ce qui est oublié.

(There is nothing new except what has been forgotten)

-Marie Antoinette

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I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

-Richard Feynman

[Bill Ryan]

The real problem of humanity is the following. We have Paleolithic emotions, Medieval institutions, and Godlike technology.
Edward O. Wilson (1929—2021), in 2009

[Raskolnikov]

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[Raskolnikov]

"Language is a virus from outer space."

William S. Burroughs

[Tintin]

There is a point of diseased mellowness and effeminacy in the history of society, at which society itself takes the part of him who injures it, the part of the criminal, and does so, in fact, seriously and honestly. To punish, appear's to it to be somehow unfair—it is certain that the idea of "punishment" and "the obligation to punish" are then painful and alarming to people. "Is it not sufficient if the criminal be rendered harmless? Why should we still punish? Punishment itself is terrible!"—with these questions gre-garious morality, the morality of fear, draws its ultimate conclusion. If one could at all do away with danger, the cause of fear, one would have done away with this morality at the same time, it would no longer be necessary, it would not consider itself any longer necessary! —Whoever examines the conscience of the present-day European, will always elicit the same imperative from its thousand moral folds and hidden recesses, the imperative of the timidity of the herd: "we wish that some time or other there may be nothing moreto fear!"
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter 5, page 114 "Beyond Good and Evil" (now in the Avalon Library)

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The quote, a damning reflection of the hyper-feminization of society and its tendency to excess compassion, and what has in more recent times been described as suicidal empathy of which one example can be tied to the misplaced acceptance of many peoples forcibly migrated into populations from incompatible cultures: a big problem in the UK and Europe at the moment (see also Enoch Powell.) We were warned.

[Bill Ryan]

We were warned.We were warned, about everything imaginable, by many hundreds of humanity's very greatest and wisest thinkers and visionaries throughout the centuries. The problem has been that so very few others have ever listened.

:flower: :focus:

[JackMcThorn]

"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again" is attributed to French author André Gide.

[Tintin]

“There is a growing volume of evidence that the highest centres of political and economic power have been forcing the entire human race toward a global, socialist, dictatorial–oriented society. And what has been most baffling about it has been the fact that this drift toward dictatorship with its inevitable obliteration of a thousand years of struggle toward human freedom, is being plotted, promoted and implemented by the leaders of free nations and the super-rich of those nations whose positions of affluence would seem to make them the foremost beneficiaries of the free-enterprise, property-oriented, open society in which so much progress has been made. Certainly they, above all men, should know that in order for this system to survive, freedom of action and the integrity of property rights must be preserved. Then why are the super-capitalists trying to destroy them?” “In nutshell, Dr. Quigley has undertaken to expose what every insider like himself has known all along – that the world hierarchy of the dynastic super-rich is out to take over the entire planet, doing it with Socialistic legislation where possible, but having no reluctance to use Communist revolution where necessary.“ - W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Capitalist, P.24-25 (1993)

Not so much a quote as a searingly insightful observation, neatly articulated.

[Bill Ryan]

If we're willing to face our shadow.
Carl Jung, when asked: "Will humanity make it?"

[grapevine]

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
- Sun Tzu -

[Paul D.]

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." - Pablo Picasso

[Raskolnikov]

"The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny."

Milton Friedman

[Kryztian]

When Trump said, recently, and I am quoting him, he plans to ban, "killers, leaches and entitlement junkies" from coming into the United States, did he have Netanyahu in mind?

- Andrew Napoltano, at 14:25 in the video below.

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[mojorissin]

“To be is to do’ — Socrates , ‘To do is to be’ — Jean-Paul Sartre , ‘Do be do be do’ — Frank Sinatra.”
Always tickled me no end … wished I had said it first lol !

[Frankie Pancakes]

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[Frankie Pancakes]

“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response. To beg for the blessing of “authority” is to accept that the choice is the master’s alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.” ― Larken Rose

“A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters. What makes them slaves is the fact that they now are, and are always hereafter to be, in the hands of men whose power over them is, and always is to be, absolute and irresponsible.”
― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

[mojorissin]

“A fine power is always heralded by great pain.” - Castaneda

[happyuk]

It's significant that "tolerance" is most loudly preached by those with little to tolerate. All too often "tolerance" spouted by those charged with the duty of government is just a cover-up for shirking of responsibilities. Tolerance all too often means that an entrenched group can not only obstruct government, but inflict great hardship on the rest of the community and even harm national security. The need today is for less tolerance, not more.

Jorian Jenks (from the book 'Spring Comes Again')

[grapevine]

“He’s got a face like a Devil’s sick of sin”
- Andrew Bridgen on Tony Blair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLkEWDPVq0A

[norman]

It's significant that "tolerance" is most loudly preached by those with little to tolerate. All too often "tolerance" spouted by those charged with the duty of government is just a cover-up for shirking of responsibilities. Tolerance all too often means that an entrenched group can not only obstruct government, but inflict great hardship on the rest of the community and even harm national security. The need today is for less tolerance, not more.

Jorian Jenks (from the book 'Spring Comes Again')

Damn, I'm replying to a post in the "Quotes" thread.

Tolerance and intolerance are quite a lot like the relationship between freedom and responsibility.

It's good to be less tolerant but only if the intolerance is rooted in fully individuated faith. Any other kind is bound to be problematic, potentially, even, globally tyrannical.

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[Tintin]

A very insightful chapter extract from, "The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios" by Dionysios Farasiotis:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-xSW01WkAA1It_?format=jpg&name=medium

[rgray222]

Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
Jaque Fresco

War is the supreme failure of bridging differences between nations
Jaque Fresco

[norman]

"God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called" - the bible prophets, in several places.

[Bill Ryan]

Copying this quote shared by Vicus on the Multipolar World Order thread: (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120183-The-Multipolar-World-Order--yes-it-s-here-&p=1699358&viewfull=1#post1699358)

Samuel P. Huntington (1927—2008), his Wiki page here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington), was an American political scientist and academic.

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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

- Samuel P. Huntington

[Michi]

Life wisdom

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out for another is to risk involvement
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self
To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss
To love is to risk not being loved in return
To live is to risk dying
To hope is to risk despair
To try is to risk failure
But risks must be taken - because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, love, live...Only a person who risks is free.

- Anon.

[Ewan]

"I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . ."

~ Edward Smith, Captain of the Titanic

However, earlier.....

"The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away."

~ Edward Smith

[Michi]

Do more than exist, live.
Do more than touch, feel.
Do more than look, observe.
Do more than read, absorb.
Do more than hear, listen.
Do more than listen, understand.
Do more than think, ponder.
Do more than talk, say something.

- John H. Rhoades

[Tintin]

"Many will appear to have lost their souls in these final days. So intense will the nature of the changes be that those who are weak in spiritual awareness will go insane, for we are nothing without spirit. They will disappear, for they are just hollow vessels for anything to use. Life will be so bad in the cities that many will choose to leave this plane, some in whole groups."

“…and many of the children in these times will be unnatural. Some being from the stars, some from past worlds, some will even be created by man in an unnatural manner, and will be soulless. Many of the people in this time will be empty in Spirit. They will have… no life-force in their eyes.” - Excerpts from Hopi Prophecy (Blue Star Kachina)

[rgray222]

"Many will appear to have lost their souls in these final days. So intense will the nature of the changes be that those who are weak in spiritual awareness will go insane, for we are nothing without spirit. They will disappear, for they are just hollow vessels for anything to use. Life will be so bad in the cities that many will choose to leave this plane, some in whole groups."

“…and many of the children in these times will be unnatural. Some being from the stars, some from past worlds, some will even be created by man in an unnatural manner, and will be soulless. Many of the people in this time will be empty in Spirit. They will have… no life-force in their eyes.” - Excerpts from Hopi Prophecy (Blue Star Kachina)

The Hopi are one of the more thoughtful American Indian tribes. They are mostly about peace, and their leadership system is organized around elders and spirituality. They believe that their cultural heritage is the bedrock of their lives. When the Blue Star Kachina is seen in the sky, it will be a period of renewal and spiritual awakening. The word renewal, as it relates to humanity, seems to be popping up everywhere.

[grapevine]

"Many men die at 25 and aren't buried until they are 75," - Benjamin Franklin.

One of the quotes under the followng video which is very moving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKmuCBFPY3g

[Kryztian]

"Better to be slapped with the truth than be kissed by a lie."

- - - Russian Proverb

[Raskolnikov]

"Many men die at 25 and aren't buried until they are 75," - Benjamin Franklin.

One of the quotes under the followng video which is very moving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKmuCBFPY3g

Thanks for sharing grapevine, that was excellent, the quote too. And the Blue Star Kachina really nailed what we're witnessing today Tintin. Powerful and on point.

"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."

William F. Buckley