The Great Quotes thread

[edina]

Perception is itself a form of grace.

Diane Ackerman,

A Natural History of the Senses,

page 361 Postscript

[Kryztian]

“Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth. A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

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[Tintin]

"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity."

- William Burroughs

[Sue (Ayt)]

"We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots—religion, nation, community, family, or profession—are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust."

Alvin Toffler from "Future Shock" 1970

[grapevine]

“I am the heir to Blair.”
- David Cameron -
(Said during a private dinner with newspaper executives at the Conservative Party conference in 2005, which unsurprisingly shocked his colleagues. Cameron later denied he said it but it was well documented)

[Bluegreen]

"I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam."

- Popeye

[grapevine]

“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of the pain.”

- Judith Lewis Harman, Trauma and Recovery

[Sue (Ayt)]

Early in his life, Benjamin Franklin penned his own epitaph:

The Body
of
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
Printer,

(Like the cover of an old book its contents torn out
And stript of its lettering and gilding)
Lies here food for worms;
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will (as he believed) appear once more
In a new and more beautiful edition,
Corrected and amended by
The Author.

[Bill Ryan]

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming, 1919

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

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[rgray222]

If you have a monolithic train of thought, it deteriorates the individual's ability to think or process information.
Charlie Kirk

[Sue (Ayt)]

Tao Te Ching - Feng and English, vs. 31

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools.
He uses them only when he has no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to his heart,
And victory no cause for rejoicing.
If you rejoice in victory, then you delight in killing;
If you delight in killing, you cannot fulfill yourself.

[rgray222]

You can't invite violence to the dinner table and act surprised when it starts eating

[Frankie Pancakes]

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[grapevine]

You were lied to when you were told that "It does not matter whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game". Winning in the world of the elite is everything. Indeed it is the only thing, The power elite intend to win.

Milton William Cooper "Behold a Pale Horse"

[rgray222]

Charlie Kirk was not killed because he spoke; he was killed because young men and women listened.

[mojorissin]

Beyond the games people play there is only awareness , spontaneity & intimacy - from the last page of the great book by Dr Eric Berne // this is where I try to be !

[rgray222]

Violence [War] is intellectual surrender

Cenk Uygur - Young Turks