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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ~ Albert Einstein
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Compassion is the radicalism of our time. ~ HH the Dalai Lama
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. ~ Spinoza
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. ~ Thomas Jefferson
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. ~ Thomas Merton
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ~ Frederick Buechner
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Compassion is the radicalism of our time. ~ HH the Dalai Lama
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. ~ Spinoza
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. ~ Thomas Jefferson
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. ~ Thomas Merton
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ~ Frederick Buechner
Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is ~ Winston Churchill
Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. ~ Buddha
Chase after the truth like all **** and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. ~ Clarence Darrow
The intuition of free will gives us the truth ~ Corliss Lamont
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Truth springs from argument amongst friends. ~ David Hume
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. ~ Demosthenes
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. ~ Dorothy Thompson
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. ~ Edward R. Murrow
Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The truth will set you free. But first, it will **** you off. ~ Gloria Steinem
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ~ Joan of Arc
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. ~ Buddha
Chase after the truth like all **** and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. ~ Clarence Darrow
The intuition of free will gives us the truth ~ Corliss Lamont
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Truth springs from argument amongst friends. ~ David Hume
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. ~ Demosthenes
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. ~ Dorothy Thompson
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. ~ Edward R. Murrow
Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The truth will set you free. But first, it will **** you off. ~ Gloria Steinem
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ~ Joan of Arc
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. ~ Dave Barry
A country who doesn't kill you because you are their meal ticket, but kills Panamanian's for control of a canal that a President signed a treaty to turn over in 2000, then lies and tries to bury it, is not a nice country. ~ wez
Hmmm.. what do ya know.. McBrain aint even a natural born citizen.. He's Panamanian.. Born in the Canal Zone in 1936.. How Ironic..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/27/mccains-canal-zone-birthp_n_88840.html
A country who doesn't kill you because you are their meal ticket, but kills Panamanian's for control of a canal that a President signed a treaty to turn over in 2000, then lies and tries to bury it, is not a nice country. ~ wez
Hmmm.. what do ya know.. McBrain aint even a natural born citizen.. He's Panamanian.. Born in the Canal Zone in 1936.. How Ironic..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/27/mccains-canal-zone-birthp_n_88840.html
The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size. So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from the roof of Victory Mansions you could see all four of them simultaneously. They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided. The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.
The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometre of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.
The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometre of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.
The voice from the telescreen was still pouring forth its tale of prisoners and booty and slaughter, but the shouting outside had died down a little. The waiters were turning back to their work. One of them approached with the gin bottle. Winston, sitting in a blissful dream, paid no attention as his glass was filled up. He was not running or cheering any longer. He was back in the Ministry of Love, with everything forgiven, his soul white as snow. He was in the public dock, confessing everything, implicating everybody. He was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of walking in sunlight, and an armed guard at his back. The longhoped-for bullet was entering his brain.
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. ~ 1984 George Orwell
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. ~ 1984 George Orwell
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“Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.” ~ Will Rodgers
"If the Soviet Union [Russia] let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party." ~ Ronald Reagan
"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. ~ Ronald Reagan
"We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country." ~ Ronald Reagan
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15" ~ Ronald Reagan
"If the Soviet Union [Russia] let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party." ~ Ronald Reagan
"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. ~ Ronald Reagan
"We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country." ~ Ronald Reagan
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15" ~ Ronald Reagan
Or even better, Ronnie?
Some people like to take money from those less fortunate than themselves and give it to those less fortunate than themselves and some people like to take money from those less fortunate than themselves and their buddies and give it to themselves and their buddies. ~ wez
Some people like to take money from those less fortunate than themselves and give it to those less fortunate than themselves and some people like to take money from those less fortunate than themselves and their buddies and give it to themselves and their buddies. ~ wez
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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. ~ Will Rogers
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. ~ Will Rogers
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. ~ Will Rogers
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got. ~ Will Rogers
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. ~ Will Rogers
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. ~ Will Rogers
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it. ~ Will Rogers
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. ~ Will Rogers
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ~ Will Rogers
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. ~ Will Rogers
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do. ~ Will Rogers
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? ~ Will Rogers
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. ~ Will Rogers
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. ~ Will Rogers
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. ~ Will Rogers
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. ~ Will Rogers
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else. ~ Will Rogers
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. ~ Will Rogers
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. ~ Will Rogers
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. ~ Will Rogers
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got. ~ Will Rogers
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. ~ Will Rogers
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. ~ Will Rogers
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it. ~ Will Rogers
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. ~ Will Rogers
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ~ Will Rogers
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. ~ Will Rogers
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do. ~ Will Rogers
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? ~ Will Rogers
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. ~ Will Rogers
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. ~ Will Rogers
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. ~ Will Rogers
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. ~ Will Rogers
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else. ~ Will Rogers
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. ~ Will Rogers
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. ~Adolph Hitler
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ~ ~Aesop
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. ~A. J. P. Taylor
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. ~Albert Camus
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ~Albert Camus
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ~Albert Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality. ~Albert Einstein
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business. ~ Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. ~Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. ~Albert Einstein
Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. ~Albert Einstein
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. ~Aldous Huxley
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. ~Alexander Berkman
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. ~Alexander Berkman
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. ~Benjamin Franklin
We Americans have no commission from *** to police the world. ~Benjamin Harrison
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb. ~Brendan Behan
Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? ~Barbara Bush
Real men do their own dying ~ wez
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. ~Adolph Hitler
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ~ ~Aesop
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. ~A. J. P. Taylor
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. ~Albert Camus
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ~Albert Camus
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ~Albert Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality. ~Albert Einstein
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business. ~ Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. ~Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. ~Albert Einstein
Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. ~Albert Einstein
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. ~Aldous Huxley
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. ~Alexander Berkman
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. ~Alexander Berkman
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. ~Benjamin Franklin
We Americans have no commission from *** to police the world. ~Benjamin Harrison
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb. ~Brendan Behan
Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? ~Barbara Bush
Real men do their own dying ~ wez
ImWithStupid
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"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Think what you do when you run in debt: you give to another power over your liberty." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed, that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions." ~ James Madison
"is admitted to have an existence even in the savage state of nature. . and if property is necessary for the support of savage life, it is by no means less so in civil society. The utopian schemes of leveling, and a community of goods, are as visionary and impracticable as those which vest all property in the Crown are arbitrary, despotic, and in our government, unconstitutional." ~ Samuel Adams
"It is a fact that should strike us with surprise and with shame that we are now obliged to borrow money in order to pay the interest of our debts. It is fact that these debts are everyday accumulating by compound interests. This...will one day endanger the peace of our country, and expose us to vicissitudes the most alarming." ~ Alexander Hamilton
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." ~ George Washington
"Think what you do when you run in debt: you give to another power over your liberty." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed, that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions." ~ James Madison
"is admitted to have an existence even in the savage state of nature. . and if property is necessary for the support of savage life, it is by no means less so in civil society. The utopian schemes of leveling, and a community of goods, are as visionary and impracticable as those which vest all property in the Crown are arbitrary, despotic, and in our government, unconstitutional." ~ Samuel Adams
"It is a fact that should strike us with surprise and with shame that we are now obliged to borrow money in order to pay the interest of our debts. It is fact that these debts are everyday accumulating by compound interests. This...will one day endanger the peace of our country, and expose us to vicissitudes the most alarming." ~ Alexander Hamilton
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." ~ George Washington