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  • Bondhead88

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    “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

    “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end th...e triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

    Theodore Roosevelt
     

    rambone

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    “As you have sown, so shall you reap.”
    Marcus T. Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC


    • "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
    • "Doctors put drugs of which they know little, into bodies of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing."
    Voltaire (penname; real name: Francois Marie Arouet), 1694 - 1778

    "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
    - Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790

    "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."
    Jean Jacques Rousseau, French political philosopher (1712 - 1778)

    "Our first step to wisdom is to question everything - our last is to come to terms with everything."
    Georg Lichtenberg, 1742 - 1799


    • "If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
    • “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
    - Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826

    "Oh foolish man! Is there anything you can't be made to believe?"
    Adam Weishaupt, 1748 - 1830


    • "It is necessary to repeat the truth over and over again, because the falsehoods around us are also being constantly repeated, not by individuals but by the masses, in newspapers and encyclopedias, in the schools and at the universities. Everywhere, falsehood is on top, comfortable and secure in the knowledge that the majority is on its side."
    • "There is nothing more odious than the majority. It consists of a few powerful men who lead the way; of acommodating rascals and submissive weaklings; and of a mass of men who trot after them without in the least knowing their own minds."
    • "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."
    • "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
    • "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 - 1832,


    • -"Science is such a wonderful thing. One gets such a wholesale return of conjecture for such a trifle investment of fact."
    • -"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
    • -"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
    • -"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
    • "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."
    Mark Twain, aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835 - 1910


    • "We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession."
    • "Naturally, the masters in parliaments, in schools, and in newspapers make the most desperate efforts to prevent us from realising our slavery. From our earliest years we are taught that we live in the land of the free." (BBC broadcast series on Freedom, CBS, June 18, 1935)
    -George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950




    • 'The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable.'
    • “Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.”
    • “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
    • "The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair."
    • "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
    • "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
    • "Consider [the pedagogue] in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons."
    • "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt."
    -H. L. Mencken, 1880 - 1956, one of America's most influential writers



    • “Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.”
    • "You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."
    -Mahatma Gandhi 1869 - 1948

    "Let us never cease from thinking--What is this 'civilization' in which we find ourselves? What are these ceremonies and why should we take part in them? What are these professions and why should we make money out of them?"
    Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941). Three Guineas. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1936.

    "Throughout the whole world error and truth travel the same highways, work in the same fields and factories, attend the same churches, fly the same planes and shop the same stores. So skilled is error at imitating truth that the two are constantly being mistaken for each other. It takes a sharp eye these days to know which brother is Cain and which is Abel!"
    A.W. Tozer 1897 - 1963

    “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell 1903-1950


    • "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
    • "Before you can act fully and truly you must know the prison which you are living in."
    Jiddu Krishnamurti


    • "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
    • "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
    Aldous Huxley, 1894 - 1963

    "Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world."
    Twice Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, 1901 - 1994

    "Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years."
    Dr. Thomas Szasz, Lifetime Fellow, American Psychiatric Association.

    "Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."-- Samuel Goldwyn, co-founder of Paramount Pictures and MGM Studios.

    "Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul." – Dr. R.D. Laing, M.D.

    “My final conclusion after forty years or more in this business is that the unofficial policy of the World Health Organisation and the unofficial policy of ‘Save the Children’s Fund and almost all those organisations is one of murder and genocide. They want to make it appear as if they are saving these kids, but in actual fact they don’t. I am talking of those at the very top. Beneath that level is another level of doctors and health workers, like myself, who don’t really understand what they are doing. But I cannot see any other possible explanation: It is murder and it is genocide. And I tell you what: when the black races really wake up to what we have done to them they are not going to thank us very much.”
    Dr A. Kalokerinos MD

    “People have to take charge of their destiny, they cannot any longer rely on government”.
    Dr. Shiv Chopra

    "Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy."
    ~ Paul Tournier - 1898 - 1986

    "It should be obvious that action without wisdom, without clear awareness of the world as it really is, can never improve anything."
    ~ Theodore Roszak

    “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
    Socrates - Ancient Greek Philosopher, 470 BC-399 BC

    "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
    George W. Bush

    "If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."
    J.M. Power

    "Most people automatically assume that "experts" are right, and that they don't need to think for themselves."
    Gene Bean

    "The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent."
    Charles Eliot Norton


    • "The great masses of the people…will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."
    • “All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
    • "If you want the sympathy of the broad masses, then you must tell them the crudest and the most stupid things."
    Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1933

    “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: You liberate a city by destroying it. Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
    Gore Vidal, Imperial America, 2004

    “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
    Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, 1841

    "The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."
    Stendhal

    "Flags are coloured bits of cloth first used to shrink-wrap people's brains, then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."
    - Arundhati Roy

    "There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come"
    Victor Hugo


    "For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are."
    Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469 - 1527

    "Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible."
    -- Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science on Society", 1953, pg 49-50;
    Selective Genocide

    "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?"
    --Alexander Solzhenitsyn – 1918–2008


    • “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.”
    • "Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance."
    • "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
    • “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
    Albert Einstein, 1879-1955


    “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
    Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65 BC - 8 BC)

    "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
    Herbert Spencer, 1820 - 1903
     

    T.Lex

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    A wee bit of thread necromancy. ;)

    I was going to post this in the Carry & Self Defense subforum, but actually searched and found this!

    Anyway, to the quote - from my Quote App (Android, not Apple):
    Malcolm X said:
    Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
     

    GREEN607

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    "Another factor in maintaining balance, involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we.... you and I, and our government.... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren, without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come; not to become the insolvent phantom of tommorrow."

    -excerpt from President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell speech to the Nation.
     
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