The Great Quotes thread

[grapevine]

"The transformation of human consciousness is no longer a luxury, so to speak, available only to a few isolated individuals, but a necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself. At the present time, the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the rising of the new are both accelerating. Paradoxically, things are getting worse and better at the same time, although the worse is more apparent because it makes so much noise"".

Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

[Tintin]

On Fred Astaire, often misattributed to Ginger Rogers herself - it's still wonderful though.

More on this here, quote: Years after the near-fall she described, a friend sent her a cartoon by Bob Thaves, in his 'Frank and Ernest’ series, from a Los Angeles newspaper. In the cartoon (which certainly popularized if it did not originate the saying), Frank and Ernest are shown gazing at a billboard announcing a Fred Astaire film festival. The caption reads:

"'Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did…backwards and in high heels.’"

[Kryztian]

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Carl Sagan

[Perdido]

“I don’t pray for The Rapture, I pray for another Passover.” D Kettles

FREEDOM !

[Matthew]

This will not be the first time this has been quoted and it will not be the last.

First they ignore you,

Then they laugh at you,

Then they fight you,

Then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

[Eva2]

“… anyone who speaks of the ideals of race and nation…today is speaking of impulses which are part of the decline of humanity. If anyone now considers them to be progressive ideals to present to humanity, they speak untruth. Nothing is more designed to take humanity into its decline than the propagation of ideals of race, nationhood and blood.”

- Rudolf Steiner
Oct 26, 1917; GA 177

[Icare]

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

Woodrow Wilson, American president from 1913 to 1921


He knew.

[Sue (Ayt)]

"Honour biological humanity. Honour Source. It will seem we are all doomed, it will seem utterly unstoppable in a moment of realisation. Hold strong in that moment because that's when Source will happen.

Stay true, all the best."
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(quote from our own Innocent Warrior)

[Icare]

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed.
If you do read it, you're misinformed."

Denzel Washington

[Eva2]

'"The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence.
To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people."

~ Carl Jung

[grapevine]

"Walk tall, walk straight and look the world right in the eye"
(Don Wayne, sung by Val Doonican)

[Mari]

" Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I'm possible!' "

-Audrey Hepburn

[Michi]

lift-up

[Icare]

"It's a wonderful thing to realize you'be been fooled. It's a great gift because from that point you'll not be fooled any longer."

David Icke

[Bill Ryan]

The West is mistaken about Russia. It thinks that we are so weakened by the war that all our power has already dried up. That's a mistake. A nation of a hundred million people capable of sacrificing themselves for an idea is not so easily wiped out. Russia is alive, and if the known limits are crossed, she will decide to fight... And then any foreigner will be unfortunate.

General Mikhail Skobelev (1843—1882)

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"They want you to be godless, sexless, genderless, childless, depressed, anxious, afraid, fat, drug addicted, lonely, physically weak, mentally weak, in debt, isolated, living in a pod, eating bugs, and dependent on the state for everything."
- someone

From Bill:
This is from AussiegirlAnna, here.

[rgray222]

"I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent." - Luciano Pavarotti.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
"They want you to be godless, sexless, genderless, childless, depressed, anxious, afraid, fat, drug addicted, lonely, physically weak, mentally weak, in debt, isolated, living in a pod, eating bugs, and dependent on the state for everything."
- someone

From Bill:
This is from AussiegirlAnna, here.

I'd seen this quoted elsewhere without the source being cited. Thanks for the heads up!

[Raskolnikov]

"The medicine of the future will be music and sound." Edgar Cayce

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Nikola Tesla

[Tintin]

“What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How do we get rid of you? And if you can’t get rid of the people who govern you, you don’t live in a democratic system.”

~ Tony Benn, former British Politician speaking in the House of Commons, March 2001



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