The Great Quotes thread

[Bill Ryan]

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.

Eliezer 'Elie' Wiesel
Writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. Author of 57 books, including 'Night', based on his experience in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

[Kryztian]

“If you had dared to suggest one hundred years ago that God and the devil were in cahoots, you would he invited to attend a barbecue in the public square, and you would be the barbecuee. But today it is apparent that the same force that answers some prayers also causes it to rain anchovies and is behind everything from sea serpents to flying saucers. It distorts our reality whimsically, perhaps out of boredom, or perhaps because it is a little crazy.

God may be a crackpot.”

― John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

[Bill Ryan]

I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back.

Isaac Asimov

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

Noam Chomsky

Humans killed billions of people in the name of religion. Bigotry is pride. Hypocrisy is moral. Human character is in its own deep abyss.

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

[Docim369]

There is no such thing as sanity and that is the sanest fact.
Mark Knpfler, Dire Straits.

[Lunesoleil]

"Woe to you, land whose king is a child." Ecclesiastes 10:16

[norman]

"We are depopulating in a civil and silent manner" - Dennis Meadows (Club of Rome)





If they can extinguish nations and their laws and rights before we get our hands on them, what laws can they be charged against . . . . . ?

Winner takes all, and writes the book.

[Bill Ryan]

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Martin Luther King

[Bill Ryan]

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

Nicholas Kristof

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

Simon Wiesenthal

All cultures are different. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. Some commit genocide.

Casey Affleck

[Franny]

Christian Zionists who have forsaken Christ for Israel find themselves fully aligned with [Palestinian] Genocide. ~ Unknown

[TargeT]

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do".

John Seldon, in Table-Talk (1654)

[Tintin]

"I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder."

- Harry Patch, some-time last surviving soldier of World War One (b: 17 June 1898 – d: 25 July 2009)

[Tintin]

“As they used to say on Stingray: 'Anything can happen in the next half-hour'. I've always tried to live with that thought in mind.”

- John Cooper Clark (The Bard of Salford)

[Tintin]

I'm assuming Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge is having a little bit of a laugh here

Headline:

Reid Hoffman Pulls Out Of Nikki Haley After New Hampshire Pounding

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...shire-pounding

[ExomatrixTV]

When Exposing A Crime Is Treated As "Committing A Crime", You Are Being Ruled By Criminals!

#EdwardSnowden

When Exposing Corruption is labeled as: "Dangerous Misinformation" You Are Being Ruled by Liars Complicit in Crime”

#JohnKuhles 🦜🦋🌳

[Kryztian]

Perhaps we need another thread called the "Not-so-great" quotes for some of the quotes here, including this one.

[pueblo]

"Love is infallible, it has no errors, for all errors are the want of love."
- William Law

"He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love."
- i John iv

"The astrolabe of the mysteries of God is love."
- Jalal-uddin Rumi

"By love may He be gotten and holden , but by thought never."
- The Cloud of the Unknowing

From The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley

[Tintin]

“Do not hope that once you take advantage of Russia’s weakness, you will receive dividends forever. The Russians always come for their money. And when they come, do not rely on the Jesuit agreements you signed that supposedly justify you. They are not worth the paper they are written on. Therefore, you should either play fairly with the Russians, or not play at all." - Otto von Bismarck

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
~ Marcus Aurelius

[Ewan]

More of a speech than a quote but...

Robert F. Kennedy, New York Senator.

On March 2nd, 1967, he spoke on the senate floor...

We have sent more than four hundred thousand men into battle. Fleets of extraordinarily complex planes pour their devastation upon paths and villages which divide an ancient jungle. The most powerful country the world has ever known now turns its strength and will upon a small and primitive land. And still there is no peace.

... All we say and all we do must be informed by our awareness that this horror is partly our responsibility; not just a nation's responsibility, but yours and mine. It is we who live in abundance and send our young men out to die. It is our chemicals that scorch the children and our bombs that level the villages. We are all participants.

... The war has also made far more difficult the hopeful pursuit of fresh understanding and diminishing tension between the two great nuclear powers: the United States and the Soviet Union. It is diverting resources which might have been used to help eliminate American poverty, to improve the education of our children and enhance the quality of our national life.

[kfm27917]

"The problem with quotations on the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine." --- Abraham Lincoln