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Famous Quotes
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The
world we live in:
"Doctors destroy health,
lawyers destroy justice,
psychiatrists destroy minds,
scientists destroy truth,
major media destroys information,
religions destroy spirituality and
governments destroy freedom."
Michael
Ellner ( HEAL )
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"The
Citizen is obliged in conscience not to follow the directives
of Civil Authorities, when they are contrary to the demands of
the moral order, to the fundamental rights of persons, or the
teachings of the Gospel. Refusing obedience to civil authorities
when their demands are contrary to those of an upright conscience,
finds its justification in the distinction between serving God
and serving the political community…" The Catechism
of the Catholic Church, #2242
"I
intended to give you some advise, but now I remember how much
is left over from last year unused." George Harris
"There
are those who will always confuse courtesy with cowardess, &
politeness for weakness." Martin Lear
"The
world runs on the initiative of about 5% of the people; the rest
need orders. The consensus of the other 95% on the subject of
one's relationship with: government - banks - tax agencies - courts
and corporations (all separate realms) is defective in that such
inert abstractions have been accorded superiority over living
beings.
Governments
are transitory mental contrivances set up by the clever few for
the purpose of living off the efforts of the trusting many - a
generalization, yes, but also the truth."
Cracking the Code, 3rd addition
"Fear can only prevail when the victims are ignorant of the
facts." Thomas Jefferson
"We see to what unaccountable lengths
men will run when once they leave the plain road of common sense,
and violate the law which God has written in the heart. Thus,
some have thought they did God a service when they unmercifully
butchered and destroyed the lives of the servants of God, while
others, upon the contrary extreme, believe that they please God
while they sit still and quietly behold their friends and brethren
killed by their unmerciful enemies, without endeavouring to defend
or rescue them. The one is a sin of omission, and the other is
a sin of commission, and it may perhaps be difficult to say, under
certain circumstances, which is the most criminal in the sight
of Heaven. Of this I am sure, that they are, both of them, great
violations of the law of God." Samuel
West, 1776
"In carrying the torch of truth round the world, you are
bound to scorch somebody's whiskers." Dr Paul Koonin
"During
times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act." George Orwell
"True definition of a pioneer, you have arrows in your back!"
"They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty
nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
"If you stand for nothing, you shall fall for everything."
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"Far
better it is
To dare mighty things
To win glorious triumphs
Even though checkered with failure
Than to live in that grey twilight
That knows neither victory nor defeat"
Theodore
Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President |
"Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his
freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming
himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed,
yet not a free man but an automation." Eric Fromm
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"When
at last freedom fails
Our best men rot in dirty jails
And those who shout "appease, appease,"
Are hanged by those they tried to please."
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"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's
nut, that held its ground."
"I
have no moral obligation to obey an immoral law."
"Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth.
And most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their
business as if nothing had happened." Sir Winston
Churchill
"To
stand in defence of truth and righteousness when the majority
forsake us, to fight the battles of the Lord when champions are
few -- this will be our test. At this time we must gather warmth
from the coldness of others, courage from their cowardice, and
loyalty from their treason." E White
"We
live in an age where TV has become fact, and fact has become fiction."
"The hottest places in hell are reserved
for those who in time of moral crises maintain their neutrality."
Dante's
Divine Comedy
"If you will not fight
for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will
not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you
may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds
against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may
be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope
of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Winston
Churchill - On the eve of Britain's entry into World War II
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet,
as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid
it, Almighty God! I know now what course others may take, but
as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" Patrick
Henry, March 23, 1775
"The germ of destruction of our nation
is in the power of the judiciary, an irresponsible body - working
by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow,
and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of
jurisdiction, until all shall render powerless the checks of one
branch over the other and will become as venal and oppressive
as the government from which we separated." Thomas
Jefferson
"I may disapprove of what you say, but
I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire
"In politics, nothing happens by accident.
If it happens, it was planned that way.” US
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
"If a nation expects
to be ignorant and free, it expects something that cannot be."
Thomas
Jefferson
"Only when the last tree has died, and
the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught, will
we realise, we cannot eat money." Chief
Seattle. Chief of the Dwamish Native Americans
"In an age of militant mediocrity, an
'extremist' is anyone who takes a position." John
Loeffler
"If God abhors one sin above another,
of which His people are guilty, it is doing nothing in case of
an emergency. Indifference and neutrality in a religious crisis
is regarded of God as a grievous crime and equal to the very worst
type of hostility against God." E
White
"Governments do not govern, but merely
control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled
by the hidden hand.” Former
British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli
"The world is governed by very different
people from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
Benjamin
Disraeli
"If
we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent
it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences."
Lord
Milner (1854-1925)
"The
tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood
of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure." Thomas
Jefferson
"You
may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because
it is better to perish than to live as slaves." Winston
Churchill
"As
nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most
aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting
victims of the darkness." Justice
William O. Douglas
"Why
should I defend a nation that prevents me from defending my own family?"
William Wallace, 2000
"If
all morally deficient people were removed from society, there would
be a chronic shortage of politicians!" William Wallace,
2000
"During
election time politicians tend to 'kiss ass' for a few weeks;
then, once elected, they tend to 'kick ass' for a few years!"
William Wallace, 2000
"It
appears that the only prerequisite for becoming a prime minister in
Australia, is a lobotomy!" William Wallace, 2000
"As a commodity, if ignorance was of value,
the general public would indeed be rich!" William Wallace, 2000
"Truth is truth even when spoken by a liar."
William Wallace, 2000
"The world would be a gay place if it were
not for the homosexuals." William Wallace,
2005
"A
government above the law is a menace to be defeated." Lord
Scarman
"And
how we burned in the camps later thinking: What would things have
been like if every security operative, when he went out at night
to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive
and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of
mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a
quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their
lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and
at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing
left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush
of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else
was at hand... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage
of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst,
the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
"None
are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they
are free" Goethe
"Those
people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants."
William
Penn
"Without
Justice, there is JUST US!"
"There
is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America,
as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There
is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if
you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.
I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper
I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for
similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write
honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another
job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my
paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The
business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright,
to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell
his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I
know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We
are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are
the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents,
our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men.
We are intellectual prostitutes."
John
Swinton (1829-1901) pre-eminent New York journalist & head of
the editorial staff at the New York Times. Quoted one night around
1880. Swinton was the guest of honour at a banquet given him by
the leaders of his craft. Someone who knew neither the press nor
Swinton offered a toast to the independent press. Swinton outraged
his colleagues by making the above statement.
"To
announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that
we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American Public."
Former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, in challenge to
President Woodrow Wilson's crackdown on dissent following America's
entry into World War I (1918)
“He who knows nothing is nearer to the
truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I
know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but
the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough
to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not
to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.” Thomas
Jefferson
"Those
who control the past, control the future; and those who control
the present, control the past." George
Orwell
"Suppose
I am an idiot. And suppose I am a member of Congress. But I repeat
myself." Mark Twain
"Civil
disobedience. . . is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.
Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed
the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to
war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. .
Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the
face of poverty and starvation and stupidity and war and cruelty.
Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full
of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running
the country. That's our problem." Howard Zinn, "Failure
to Quit," p. 45.
"Poor
people have access to the courts in the same sense that Christians
had access to the lions.'' Judge
Earl Johnson Jr
“All
that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Edmund
Burke
“Whoso
would ever become a man, must be a non-conformist."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It
will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of
his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it."
Oliver
Cromwell (1599-1658) British Lord General of the Army, Lord Protector
of the Realm. Source: Address, First Protectorate Parliament, 1654
“Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of
a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation
which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion
to its numbers the most powerful nation." John Quincy
Adams (1767-1848) 6th US President. Source: Letter to James Lloyd,
1 October 1822
“The
price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
“Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have
already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of
the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection,
deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember, that
'if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage
it, and involve others in our doom.' It is a very serious consideration,
which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn
may be the miserable sharers in the event." Samuel
Adams, speech in Boston, 1771
“The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance
of the people." Frank Kent
“The
burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has
always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius
of its time."
Joseph Allen (1749-1827) Delegate Source: Massachusetts Constitutional
Convention, 1788
“The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the
pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert
upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain,
so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to
their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and
anarchy."
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) Source: New York Evening Post,
18 November 1837
“Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all
of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham,
a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if
speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled
or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what
form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen."
William
E. Borah (1865-1940) U. S. Senator Source: Remarks to the Senate,
19 April 1917
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Voltaire
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing
the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is
down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes
a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where
everyone lives in fear." Harry
S Truman
“Size does matter. The bigger your education, the deeper your
paradigm." Beagle's
Fourth Ideological Insight
“Tyranny
expands to fill the amount of passivity available for its implementation."
Beagle's
First Law of Governance
“Tyranny is neither created nor destroyed, it just changes
suits." Beagle's
Second Law of Governance
“The result of an irresistible freedom force meeting an immovable
tyrannical object is, well, revolution." Beagle's
Third Law of Governance
“The desire for freedom varies inversely with the number of
cable channels available." Beagle's
Fourth Law of Governance
“Democracy is three wolves and a sheep sitting down to vote
on what to have for dinner."
The
rights of the sheep in this system are by no means guaranteed.
“Turn or burn - Believe or grieve - Love it or shove it."
Martin
Lear
“Fear, Ignorance & Superstition, an occultic tripod to
control law and religion." Martin
Lear
“If you want to make someone angry, tell him a lie; if you want
to make him furious, tell him the truth. All truth passes through three
stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and
third, it is accepted as self-evident." -
Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher, 1788-1860
“The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized
but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be
very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time:
so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before
us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the world from suicide."
T.S. Eliot (circa 1930)
"Freedom is not free. It will cost you your delusions."
"If you want to bind a slave forever you should make him proud of his chains."
"Tired of being harassed by your parents?
Act now! Move out, get a job and pay your own bills!
Do it while you still know everything!"
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