The Great Quotes thread

[edina]

Recall that lending is how money is generated in our current monetary system ... money is not so much "printed", as it is lent into existence.

(our own Paul, aka ThePythonicCow, in this post)

And also this:

When the Fed raises the rate payed by newly issued bonds, that lowers the value of bonds previously issued that pay a lower rate.

Hence, the Fed's interest rate increases since early 2022 have already been forcing a hair cut on bonds already held by corporations and nations.

Who wants an older bond that pays say 1%, when new bonds pay 5%?

Same post.

[Johnnycomelately]

“Whether a particular glass is half full or half empty, depends entirely on whether it is being either filled or emptied.” - me.

[Raskolnikov]

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
-Samuel Adams

[grapevine]

"November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely,

Arthur James Balfour

[norman]

"Hillary has Campaign Hair" - Karen Kwiatkowski, in conversation with Judge Napolitano 2 weeks ago.

[Kryztian]

[Eva2]

America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up and sell it off, piece by piece, until there is nothing left but the world's biggest welfare state that we will create and control.

This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them, very slowly.

Benjamin Netanyahu
Recorded at Finks Bar
Jerusalem 1990

[Tintin]

"When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to be a progressive."

–-G.K. Chesterton

[grapevine]

[Bill Ryan]

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Otto von Bismarck (1815—1898)

[Bill Ryan]

Humanity is apparently incapable of living without war, such is the fallen nature of man. The task of believers is to at least minimize the harm.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow

[Tintin]

"Really, men are equal in two ways only: before the judgment-seat of God (who, remember, doesn’t assign them all to the same place), and in the eyes of the law. But human beings are not equal otherwise; and because they are unequal, they are not entitled to identical things. Every man is entitled to what is his own; but he has no right to take away from another who has more by his talents or inheritance.

For the slothful man is not equal to the diligent man. The brute is not equal to the saint. The fool is not equal to the sage. The traitor is not equal to the loyal man. The selfish is not equal to the loving. The coward is not equal to the hero. The rogue is not equal to the just judge. And nothing could be more unjust than to treat all these, under the lunatic pretext of natural equality, as if they ought to live one life and enjoy the same rewards."

—Russell Kirk, CONFESSIONS OF A BOHEMIAN TORY, 1963, pg. 280

[Kryztian]

“Does man only possess immortality? The great words: ‘Behold, I make all things new’ are certainly related not to man only, but to all creation, to every creature. We have already said that the spirit of animals, even the smallest part of it, cannot be mortal, for it is from the Holy Spirit….In the new Jerusalem, the new universe, there will be a place for the animals, too….Eternal life for [non-human] creatures will be only quiet happiness and enjoyment of the new radiant nature full of light, in communication with man, who will no longer torture and exterminate it.”
- - - Saint Luke the Surgeon of Simferopol (1877 – 1961)

[norman]

[Kryztian]

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

- Carl Sagan

[kfm27917]

Here is a quote from the now retired number one law enforcement representative in the USA, from an article in 2015:
“Why is it such a serious matter to get these signers of the AIPAC Loyalty Oath out of Congress?
The reason is obvious, without these Traitors who are sellouts to AIPAC and Israel, America could not have been transformed into a virtual province of Israel”.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
~ Marcus Aurelius

[kfm27917]

The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist.
You have been controlled like sheep in a pen by those who think they own you — from the government to the World Management Team to those in space. You have been deprived of knowledge by frequency control. Think of frequency as individual broadcasting and receiving through which you dial into the station of your choice. It is the broadcasting of carrier waves of intelligence. The range of frequency is unlimited, and the range of intelligent matter transmitted is unlimited.

Pleiadians

https://www.pleiadians.com/dawn.html

[Frankie Pancakes]

Freedom is not free, as many veterans have said. I never understood what that meant except superficially. But you don’t get freedom back so easily if you yourself committed massive crimes. Freedom is not free. You don’t get to take away the freedom of others and enjoy it, without penalty for yourselves. The people you harmed, the parents of the children you burned—they are coming. Not violently, not vengefully, but with the righteous sword of justice in hand. Don’t rest too easy, leaders who did wrong, in this bright American sunlight. You don’t get America back as if nothing had happened.

Naomi Wolf

[Tintin]

“Very shortly, after when one will have written the year 2000, there will come from America not a direct prohibition, but a kind of prohibition against all thinking, a sort of law which will have the aim of suppressing all individual thinking. On the other hand there is the beginning achieved in this direction of suppressing all individual thinking into pure materialistic thinking where one does not need to work upon the soul on the basis of external experiments, in which the human being is handled as if he were a machine."

"For if the world continues in its development as it is strives for in the sense of these materialistic impulses, then we will gradually enter into a development through which not only someone who unlicensed is forbidden from doing anything for human health, but also one in which relating to science, there is a prohibition against anyone saying anything other than that which is approved by those who have taken a kind of vow under the materialist world order.

Today many things are forbidden, of which people do not feel any coercion from prohibition. But we are approaching times when, like any unlicensed concern for healing of human beings, every word will be banned, except in an institution guaranteed and approved by the materialistically developed powers."

- Rudolf Steiner, April 1916, Dornach

Passage from the full lecture, THINGS IN PAST AND PRESENT IN THE SPIRIT OF MAN, GA 167 - IV. Secrets of Freemasonry here: https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA167...160404p01.html