The Great Quotes thread

[Bill Ryan]

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

C.S. Lewis

[indiana]

In these times, i really like this quote from Bobby Sands, who died - unbroken - on hunger strike in 1981.

"They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken"

[Pam]

Posted by Frankie Pancakes (here)
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ – this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

– Aldous Huxley

What a perfect definition of the psychological prerequisite for genocide.

[Frankie Pancakes]

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[Eva2]

“Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.” - Joanna Macy

[mizo]

Famous last words: 'I'm just popping out having a quick pint with ...'

'Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so' -Douglas Adams

[Bill Ryan]

You're entitled to your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Sam Mendenhall, Jussie Smollett prosecutor

[Eva2]

Go deeper
past thoughts into silence,
past silence into stillness,
past stillness into the Heart.
Let Love consume
all that is left of you.
Rumi

[palehorse]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

[Eva2]

Understand fear to be
Estrangement from the Source.
Understand desire to be
Longing for the Source.
One can then see how
Returning to the Source is
The elimination of fear and
The satisfaction of desire.
And what is returning to the Source?
It is the recognition that
One is the sun and not
The clouds that obscure it.
wu'hsin

[Ankle Biter]

I don't recall where this is from, but I did see it somewhere recently... it might even be a previous page of this thread..but has been bouncing around in my head since and I have to let it out.

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried” – Stephen McCranie

[Kryztian]

[holcaul]

"I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy."

- Lee Harvey Oswald

[norman]

One of my highest values is 'choice', but now I'm having to think about something I've never thought about before, which is 'resist', because the choices are getting fewer - Jeff Hayes 2021

[Frankie Pancakes]

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[holcaul]

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

- Joseph Heller [Catch-22]

[Innocent Warrior]

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

~ George Orwell, 1984

[Innocent Warrior]

“The Great Resistance
They will own nobody and they will be unhappy.”

A sign at a 2021 Freedom Rally.

[Eva2]

In this long dark, logic and plain sight are useless. You navigate by the diffuse and reflective attention of the moon and stars. Bringing a deep, penetrating silence to the knowing that lives in your bones and emanates from your dreams, you recognize that you are no longer who you used to be and not yet still who you will become. You are both, you are neither, you are perfectly between things.
Even if distantly and dimly at first, abilities you never had during the day are coming alive. Where you used to seek leadership outside yourself, now yours is the deciding voice. Fear is becoming your strange ally, as you learn to honour and cradle its soft underbelly. Instinct and the mystical pull of your feeling leads the way. You can sense the density of objects around you, hear the songs of stones, and know things are coming even before they’ve left.
For you, brave pilgrim, I hold this Solstice lantern at the crossroads. While others are anxious to see you arrive, I praise your vast withstanding of the uncertainty from which all meaning is born.
Toko-pa