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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 20-12-2022
"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
"Beware of the words “internal security,” for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 21-12-2022
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong ."
"Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too."
" Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 22-12-2022
"The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity."
“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”
"I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 24-12-2022
"Common sense is both rarer and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence."
"He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. "
"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 26-12-2022
"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."
Benito Mussolini
“People seem hard-wired to get things wrong. They confuse opinion with fact, they tend to believe what everyone around them believes, & they are ready to die for the truth or whichever version of it they have clasped to their breasts.”
Illusions, Armand Ti
“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.”
Mahatma Gandhi
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 27-12-2022
"In the last three decades, neoliberalism and global capitalism have destroyed social democracies, widened gaps between rich and poor, dispossessed farmers, assaulted indigenous peoples, and marketized the entire world, all the while escalating the war on animals and intensifying the assault on every ecosystem on the earth as a whole. "
Steven Best
"Values like fairness, democracy, and wisdom all disappear. Instead, everything becomes quantified, and market values predominate. This is neoliberalism: what happens depends on the market and almost nothing else.”
“Community is not valued in a society like this. Money rules absolutely.
Nathan J Robinson
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
Frederick Douglass
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 28-12-2022
“We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, & to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile..It’s not that we’re better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe & the universe is in us.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance.”
Nathan Rutstein
"Never doubt the courage of the French. They're the ones who discovered snails are edible."
Doug Larson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 29-12-2022
“Socialism is a scareword they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free & independent labour organisations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all of the people.”
Harry S Truman, 1952
"We must act responsibility. To the degree to which we should oppose everything that could give itself to war, to crime, to catastrophe.
Because we who lived through the war know how it begins, where it comes from. We know that it does not begin only with bombs & rockets, but with fanaticism & pride, stupidity & contempt, ignorance & hatred.
It feeds on all that grows on that & from that. That is why, just as some of us fight the pollution of the air, we should fight the polluting of human affairs by ignorance & hatred."
Ryzard Kapuscinski
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 30-12-2022
“Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance.”
Nathan Rutstein
"We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart."
Saki
“I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.”
Saki
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 31-12-2022
“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh & the greatness which does not bow before children”
Khalil Gibran
(Lebanese/American poet & writer.)
“My brain is only a receiver, in the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength & inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
Nikola Tesla.
“Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told.
Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.”
H. L. Mencken
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-01-2023
“The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.”
Erik Erikson
“People seem hard-wired to get things wrong. They confuse opinion with fact, they tend to believe what everyone around them believes, & they are ready to die for the truth or whichever version of it they have clasped to their breasts.”
Illusions, Armand Ti
"In the last three decades, neoliberalism and global capitalism have destroyed social democracies, widened gaps between rich and poor, dispossessed farmers, assaulted indigenous peoples, and marketized the entire world, all the while escalating the war on animals and intensifying the assault on every ecosystem on the earth as a whole."
Steven Best
"Values like fairness, democracy, and wisdom all disappear. Instead, everything becomes quantified, and market values predominate. This is neoliberalism: what happens depends on the
market and almost nothing else.”
“Community is not valued in a society like this. Money rules absolutely.
Nathan J Robinson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 02-01-2023
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
Frederick Douglass
"Any two humans on Earth have a common ancestor if you go back far enough in the family tree. So the fact that you draw a circle that's this big around a family and say, 'that's my family, and outside the circle it's not,' that's an arbitrary circle. We have genetic links among all human beings."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 03-01-2023
“Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance.”
Nathan Rutstein
"Forever wondering if I'm truly left or if I'm just an empathetic person living in a late capitalist hellscape where I get called a commie for saying “Hey, maybe poor people don't deserve to starve.”
FB, The real Rynnstar
"Rome wasn't built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour."
John Heywood
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 04-01-2023
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Soren Kierkegaard
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 05-01-2023
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”
Eugene V Deb
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 06-01-2023
“Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death."
Eugene V. Deb
Hiraeth.
(Welsh.) A spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul's lost past & our grief for them. It is in the wind, the rocks & the waves. It is nowhere & it is everywhere.
"Love & kindness is never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them & they bless you, the giver."
Barbara de Angelis
'When you're not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.'
Anon
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 07-01-2023
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain sets of other people are human.
Aldous Huxley
“He who hath not a uterus should shut the fucketh up”
Fallopians 13.13.
“I don't know what word in the English language - I can't find one – that applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organised human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly overstuffed pockets.
The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it.”
Noam Chomsky
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 08-01-2023
“Researchers have proven scientifically, that humans are all one people. The colour of our ancestor's skin & ultimately my skin & your skin is a consequence of ultra violet light, of latitude & climate. Despite our recent sad conflicts here in the U.S. There's really no such thing as race. We are one species – each of us much, much more alike than different.
We all come from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live & die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness os space. We have to work together.”
Bill Nye
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, & a compulsion to do something about it.
From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty.
You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck, & drag him a quarter of a million miles out & say:
“Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
Edgar Mitchell
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are & not as you'd like them to be.”
Leo Tolstoy
"Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another".
Nelson Mandela
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 09-01-2023
“When a clown moves into the palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.”
Turkish proverb
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“All children are artists”
Pablo Picasso
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 10-01-2023
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”
Neil Gaiman
“How poor people spend the little money they have is always the topic of discussion.
Let's talk about how rich people spend the money poor people create.”
Anthony V. Clark
“We have art so that we shall not die of reality.”
Nietzsche