Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”

“My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.”


Carl Sagan

"Non nobis solum nati sumus.
We are not born for ourselves alone."
Cicero


'If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.'
Lao Tzu


"I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other."
Fred Hollows


'To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.'
Voltaire

[mike]

Surprised how wise Charlie Chaplin is, as they say does not pay to assume.
He has a new fan. R.I.P.

https://images.app.goo.gl/LtXNhb171JdBARL47

Real gems here too.

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=Charli...UXpCvDb6eM

[Lilith7]

"Here is Truth:
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong - because some day in life you will have been all of these. "
G.W. Car

'The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.'
Robert Hutchins


“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


'If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.'
Thomas Jefferson


'The best cure for patriotism is carefully studying history & the best cure for religion is carefully studying the scriptures.'
Alisha Zarmeen


'Socialism doesn’t mean taking wealth from those who work hard and giving it to those who don’t.
You’re thinking of capitalism.'
Dom Denton

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Surprised how wise Charlie Chaplin is, as they say does not pay to assume.
He has a new fan. R.I.P.

https://images.app.goo.gl/LtXNhb171JdBARL47

Real gems here too.

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=Charli...UXpCvDb6eM

Yes, he was an interesting person.

[mike]

"Here is Truth:
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong - because some day in life you will have been all of these. "
G.W. Car

'The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.'
Robert Hutchins


“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


'If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.'
Thomas Jefferson


'The best cure for patriotism is carefully studying history & the best cure for religion is carefully studying the scriptures.'
Alisha Zarmeen


'Socialism doesn’t mean taking wealth from those who work hard and giving it to those who don’t.
You’re thinking of capitalism.'
Dom Denton

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Surprised how wise Charlie Chaplin is, as they say does not pay to assume.
He has a new fan. R.I.P.

https://images.app.goo.gl/LtXNhb171JdBARL47

Real gems here too.

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=Charli...UXpCvDb6eM

Yes, he was an interesting person.

Yeah, what gem quotes.

Do have some favourite quotes? Quotes that have helped you go through life ?

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What we are today is a result of our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. If a man thinks or acts with an impure mind suffering will follow him like the wheel of the cart follows the ox that draws it.

What we are today is a result of our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life of Tomorrow. If a man thinks or acts with a pure mind joy will follow him like the wheel of the cart follows the ox that draws it.

1st and 2nd Buddah teaching in the Buddah Bible.

Buddah in my book would take some beating for wisdom, based on love and operating from within where contentment comes from.

Those that hate will never be free of hate. (Beat themselves up)

Great quotes you posted before cheers. True genius Albert.

[Lilith7]

Yes, if I was forced to choose a religion it would have to be Buddhism.

Probably the quote I like best is this:
"Life can only be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards."
Soren Kierkegaard

[mike]

Just read one of the oldest religions
at 2500 ​years old.


I previously never looked at it as a religion as it differs from
believing in a god, more a way to find inner happiness navarna.

Your quote is deep will have to give that some thought cheers.

When I was in my 20's I knew a wise lady and she would say don't
come from the angle I have learned this or that come from an
angle of I have unlearned that things weren't the way I thought
it was. That way you won't run the risk of being indoctrinated so
easily. I sense a connection with your quote. Maybe ....

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It does go along the lines of Steve Jobs point of look back on your life and learn to connect the dots and you will see everything happens for a reason. ....... Will still give it more thought.

[mike]

Oh yes, love all those. I adore all ancient philosophers, and their infinite foresight and wisdom knows no bounds.

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." — Democritus, lived circa 400 BCE in Greece.

He is most famous for the development of the atomic theory of the universe, or that everything in the universe is comprised of indivisible atoms.

400 BCE and most people still don't seem to get that happiness is an inside job. Maybe people create lives so busy they never have still mind time to discover it comes from the inside or don't read enough wise quotes. Also one may realise it but never put it into practice.

[Lilith7]

“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lies defeat and death.”
Nelson Mandela


'The primary difference between intelligence and stupidity is that there are limits to intelligence.'
Anon

Lalochezia
Emotional relief gained by using indecent or vulgar language.


'It doesn’t pay to be stuck up
Today’s peacock is tomorrows feather duster.'
Anon



'Serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.'

Dorothy Parker

[mike]

Thank you very much Lilith and Crafty and the many others
who have contributed so many gems.

"Know them by their fruits"

[Lilith7]

'Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim:
The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.'

Bertrand Russell

"The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. "
Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey

"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
Mahatma Gandhi


“Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life.
First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. We all know individuals who did not fulfill the promise they showed in childhood. Many of them became haunted by the image of what they might have become. Instead of blaming fate, I think we should accept ourselves as we are and try to fulfill whatever dreams are within our capability.

Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make a difference, whether it is to probe the secrets of Nature, to clean up the environment and work for peace and social justice, or to nurture the inquisitive, vibrant spirit of the young by being a mentor and a guide.”
Michio Kaku

"I hope I shall live to see eight hours a day as a day’s work universally acknowledged and become the law of every nation of the world."
Samuel Parnell


'You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.'
Dorothy Parker

[mike]

Great quotes, chuckled at the dogma one.

"Grateful people are happy people".

(It all starts with gratitude - it unlocks your heart.
If you are not grateful for what is already in your life
you will never be happy)

[Lilith7]

'There is no greater anomaly than the exaltation by men of the vocation of wife & mother on the one hand, while, on the other, the position is by law stripped of all its attractiveness & dignity.'
Kate Sheppard


'The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.'
Oscar Wilde

'There is no such thing as an ugly woman.'
Vincent Van Gogh


'Is fat really the worst thing a human can be? Is fat worse than vindictive, jealous, shallow, vain, boring, evil or cruel? Not to me.'
J.K.Rowling


'If you really think the environment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money.'
Dr Guy McPherson

'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.'
Dwight D. Eisenhower


Retweeted many times lately:

' ... @ScottWesterfeld: Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. ...'
Scott Westerfield


“We may have a democracy, or we may have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”
Louis Brandeis

[Lilith7]

"Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt they can’t afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, & by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt but have also internalised the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer culture."
Noam Chomsky.

"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people"
John F. Kennedy

“I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.”
Caitlin Moran

“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
Margaret Sanger

'Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken & to heal the hurting.'
Unknown


"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to
climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
Albert Einstein

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
John Stuart Mill

[Lilith7]

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
Oscar Wilde

[Lilith7]

"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


"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Pro-life” is simply a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one that can be saved by punishing a woman."


"I don’t understand why some people have no problem with CEO’s making $10,000 an hour, but act as though the world will end if we raise the minimum wage."
Anon


"No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, & hours of labour short enough so after his day’s work is done he will have time & energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load."
Theodore Roosevelt


"The secret of freedom lies in educating people; whereas the secret of tyranny lies in keeping them ignorant."
Maxmillien Robespierre


'The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. '
Robert Green Ingersoll


"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, a result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the poor are not pitied but written off as trash."
John Berger


"War is organised murder, & nothing else."
Harry Patch, last surviving soldier of WW1

[Lilith7]

"You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting."
E.A. Bucchianeri

"The “trickle down” theory.

The principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals."
William Blum

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men & women."
Frederick Douglass.

"We truly regret that gay marriage attacks the sanctity of your fourth marriage."
Anon

"Out beyond ideas
Of wrongdoing & rightdoing,
There is a field.
I’ll meet you there."
Jelaluddin Rumi
13th century

“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
Benjamin Franklin

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
Anne Herbert

[Magoo]

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”

Anne Herbert

the Fabbulous Freak Brothers have a similar adage
'weed will get you through times of no money, better than money will get you through times of no weed'

im thinking anne herbert plagiarised that

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'bury them deep son'
my dad.

[mike]

Lol the weed one. Bit truth in that was cheap entertainment when I
had no money. Grew out of it (exuse the pun) still now and again when
about.. Former part true don't agree with latter, better things to be
doing than smoking weed when got the coin, mind sometimes latter
true too lollol.

"Freind in need is a freind indeed a freind with weed is better".

[Winner]

"The more dope you smoke
The bigger the dope you become"
 
  courtesy of my uncle way back

[Lilith7]

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”

Anne Herbert

the Fabbulous Freak Brothers have a similar adage
'weed will get you through times of no money, better than money will get you through times of no weed'

im thinking anne herbert plagiarised that

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'bury them deep son'
my dad.

I can - just about - remember the furry freak brothers.