The Great Quotes thread

[norman]

Posted by happyuk (here)

It's significant that "tolerance" is most loudly preached by those with little to tolerate. All too often "tolerance" spouted by those charged with the duty of government is just a cover-up for shirking of responsibilities. Tolerance all too often means that an entrenched group can not only obstruct government, but inflict great hardship on the rest of the community and even harm national security. The need today is for less tolerance, not more.

Jorian Jenks (from the book 'Spring Comes Again')

Damn, I'm replying to a post in the "Quotes" thread.

Tolerance and intolerance are quite a lot like the relationship between freedom and responsibility.

It's good to be less tolerant but only if the intolerance is rooted in fully individuated faith. Any other kind is bound to be problematic, potentially, even, globally tyrannical.

[Tintin]

A very insightful chapter extract from, "The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios" by Dionysios Farasiotis:

[rgray222]

Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
Jaque Fresco

War is the supreme failure of bridging differences between nations
Jaque Fresco

[norman]

"God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called" - the bible prophets, in several places.

[Bill Ryan]

Copying this quote shared by Vicus on the Multipolar World Order thread:

Samuel P. Huntington (1927—2008), his Wiki page here, was an American political scientist and academic.

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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

- Samuel P. Huntington

[Michi]

Life wisdom

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out for another is to risk involvement
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self
To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss
To love is to risk not being loved in return
To live is to risk dying
To hope is to risk despair
To try is to risk failure
But risks must be taken - because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, love, live...Only a person who risks is free.

- Anon.

[Ewan]

"I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . ."

~ Edward Smith, Captain of the Titanic

However, earlier.....

"The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away."

~ Edward Smith

[Michi]

Do more than exist, live.
Do more than touch, feel.
Do more than look, observe.
Do more than read, absorb.
Do more than hear, listen.
Do more than listen, understand.
Do more than think, ponder.
Do more than talk, say something.

- John H. Rhoades

[Tintin]

"Many will appear to have lost their souls in these final days. So intense will the nature of the changes be that those who are weak in spiritual awareness will go insane, for we are nothing without spirit. They will disappear, for they are just hollow vessels for anything to use. Life will be so bad in the cities that many will choose to leave this plane, some in whole groups."

“…and many of the children in these times will be unnatural. Some being from the stars, some from past worlds, some will even be created by man in an unnatural manner, and will be soulless. Many of the people in this time will be empty in Spirit. They will have… no life-force in their eyes.” - Excerpts from Hopi Prophecy (Blue Star Kachina)

[rgray222]

Posted by Tintin (here)
"Many will appear to have lost their souls in these final days. So intense will the nature of the changes be that those who are weak in spiritual awareness will go insane, for we are nothing without spirit. They will disappear, for they are just hollow vessels for anything to use. Life will be so bad in the cities that many will choose to leave this plane, some in whole groups."

“…and many of the children in these times will be unnatural. Some being from the stars, some from past worlds, some will even be created by man in an unnatural manner, and will be soulless. Many of the people in this time will be empty in Spirit. They will have… no life-force in their eyes.” - Excerpts from Hopi Prophecy (Blue Star Kachina)

The Hopi are one of the more thoughtful American Indian tribes. They are mostly about peace, and their leadership system is organized around elders and spirituality. They believe that their cultural heritage is the bedrock of their lives. When the Blue Star Kachina is seen in the sky, it will be a period of renewal and spiritual awakening. The word renewal, as it relates to humanity, seems to be popping up everywhere.

[grapevine]

"Many men die at 25 and aren't buried until they are 75," - Benjamin Franklin.

One of the quotes under the followng video which is very moving:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dKmuCBFPY3g