The Great Quotes thread

[Frankie Pancakes]

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[Kryztian]

"Democracy remains healthy, however, only when rooted in the moral law and a true vision of the human person. Lacking this foundation, it risks becoming either a majoritarian tyranny or a mask for the dominance of economic and technological elites."

- - Robert Francis Prevost a.k.a. Pope Leo XIV, in a message to participants in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, April 14, 2026

[grapevine]

"We are just a slightly advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet orbiting an average star. But we can understand the universe, and that makes us something very special."

- Stephen Hawking told Der Spiegel in 1988 -

[Raskolnikov]

"Just as Hitler was stopped by the alliance of humanity 70 years ago, Netanyahu and his murder network must be stopped by the alliance of humanity."

Turkish President Erdogan speaking at the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly

[Kryztian]

When people are in the thrall of poisonous ideology, it's really not all about deliberate ill will or lack of intelligence. It's about the unbelievable destructiveness and staying power of bad ideas. And the more of us who are willing to reach out, to disagree without demonizing, the more likely we are to change hearts and minds, to heal divisions, and to create a better society for all of us in the process.

- - - Megan Phelps-Roper

[Ewan]

AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately it might also be the last. ~Elon Musk

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. ~Stephen Hawking

Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-Complete. ~Larry Page CEO and co-founder of Google

If you invent artificial intelligence that's the last invention you'll ever have to invent. ~D. Scott Phoenix co-founder of Vicarious

I don't understand why some people are not concerned. ~Bill Gates

[Raskolnikov]

"I plan on LIVING. Not suicidal at all. Just concerned about what happens when you prove God is real."

David Wilcock

[rgray222]

The Pope was speaking to all of humanity, not just world leaders.

"Peace is not merely the absence of war but a personal and interior effort. True peace begins with humility, forgiveness and mindful communication — not just political treaties"
Pope Leo XIV

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“Peace is built in the heart and from the heart, by eliminating pride and vindictiveness and carefully choosing our words.”
Pope Leo XIV

[Raskolnikov]

"The evil was not in the bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease."

"1. The poor, work and work.
2. The rich, exploit the poor.
3. The soldier, protects both.
4. The taxpayer, pays for all three.
5. The wanderer, rests for all four.
6. The drunk, drinks for all five.
7. The banker, robs all six.
8. The lawyer, misleads all seven.
9. The doctor, bills all eight.
10. The undertaker, buries all nine.
11. The politician lives happily on account of all ten."

Cicero

[Eva2]

Brighten, oh glory of being,
Reach into the power of becoming,
And weave the thread of life
Through worlds imbued with being,
In mindful revelation,
Into radiant life-awareness.
Oh glory of being, appear!

Rudolph Steiner, Twelve Moods

[Kryztian]

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956