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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 12-05-2025
“Omnism,the belief that no one religion provides the whole truth, but that deep truths & wisdom can be found in all religions.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Indigenous perspectives remind us that we're not meant to dominate nature – we're part of it. With that belonging comes a responsibility to care for the Earth. By honouring this relationship, we can help restore balance in these times of climate crisis. That's why its so important to uplift indigenous voices – because when we care for nature, we all benefit.”
Solomon Pili Kaho'ohalahala
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 13-05-2025
“The reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate.
This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality & ethics beyond religion altogether.”
Dalai Lama
“Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, & forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify , or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.”
Benedict de Spinoza
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 13-05-2025
Si vis pacem, para bellum is a Latin adage translated as "If you want peace, prepare for war."
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 14-05-2025
“Such is life & life is such, & after all it isn't much.
First a cradle then a hearse.
It might have been better but it could have been worse.”
Norman Wisdom
“Its not so much staying alive, its staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.”
George Orwell
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 15-05-2025
“Tolerance will reach a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The simple step of the courageous individual is to not take part in the lie.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 16-05-2025
“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth & name the liars.”
Salman Rushdie
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for the,selves.”
Abraham Lincoln
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 17-05-2025
“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword & the other is the pen. There is a thrid power, stronger than both, that of women.”
Malala Yousafzai
“Books & all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.”
Wole Soyinka
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 18-05-2025
“The longer I live,the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”
George Bernard Shaw
“However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.”
George Orwell
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 19-05-2025
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 20-05-2025
“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Gradually it was disclosed to me that 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. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 21-05-2025
Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 22-05-2025
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 23-05-2025
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 24-05-2025
“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 25-05-2025
“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 26-05-2025
“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 27-05-2025
“The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 28-05-2025
“Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 29-05-2025
“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 30-05-2025
“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Many of the actions by which men have become rich are far more harmful to the community than the obscure crimes of poor men , yet they go unpunished because they do not interfere with the existing order.”
Bertrand Russell