The Great Quotes thread

[Franny]

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

[pueblo]

"If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today,
He'd be gunned down cold by the C.I.A."

- Matt Johnson of The The from the song Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)

[East Sun]

Kennedy would have agreed with that ...

[Eva2]

'The hour is late; the clock is ticking; we will be judged very harshly if we fumble the ball. We are the inheritors of millions and millions of years of successfully lived lives and successful adaptations to changing conditions in the natural world. Now the challenge passes to us, the living, that the yet-to be-born may have a place to put their feet and a sky to walk under; and that’s what experience is about, is caring for, empowering, and building a future that honours the past, honours the planet and honours the power of the human imagination.
There is nothing as powerful, as capable of transforming itself and the planet, as the human imagination. Let’s not sell it straight. Let’s not whore ourselves to nitwit ideologies. Let’s not give our control over to the least among us. Rather, you know, claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.'
Terence McKenna
The Archaic Revival'

[Constance]

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[Bill Ryan]

Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

[Eva2]

[pueblo]

"What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down"

Jim Morrison/The Doors - When The Music's Over

[Constance]

“When you adopt the view point that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.”

Harry Palmer

[Eva2]

[Eva2]

'In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer'
Albert Camus

[Eva2]

'"To my mind, Taoism is the most refined ideal of human existence. It is open-ended, it always yields to a good laugh, it's not dogmatic, it's rooted in nature, it sees the world as shells of energy that can be manipulated and cultivated."
- Terence McKenna'

[justntime2learn]

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

[Eva2]

If your realisation of “truth” doesn’t fill your heart with love, compassion and your mind with peace, but separates and pitches you against your fellow soul, you are likely the victim of a theory.
Jurgen Ziewe

[pueblo]

"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed by the masses."

-Plato

[Iancorgi]

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[pueblo]

"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny; the officious demands of policemen, government clerks and electromechanical gadgets"

- Edward Abbey

[Mare]

“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.”

Oscar Wilde.

[edina]

The Way of Zen

[Kryztian]

“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President Source: in a letter to William S. Smith, 13 November 1787