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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:27:23 GMT 10
You are free to slave for others — you are free to make the rich richer. The moment you're born they plant around you mills that grind lies, lies to last you a lifetime
You may proclaim that one must live not as a tool, a number or a link but as a human being — then at once they handcuff your wrists. You are free to be arrested, imprisoned and even hanged
You love your country as the nearest, most precious thing to you. But one day, for example, they may endorse it over to America, and you, too, with your great freedom — you have the freedom to become an air-base
There's neither an iron, wooden nor a tulle curtain in your life; there's no need to choose freedom: you are free. But this kind of freedom is a sad affair under the stars
The strangest of our powers is the courage to live knowing that we will die, knowing nothing more true
You're my bondage and my freedom, my flesh burning like a naked summer night, you're my country. Hazel eyes marbled green, you're awe- some, beautiful, and brave, you're my desire always just out of reach
The world's not run by governments or money but people rule a hundred years from now maybe but it will be for sureNazim HikmetTurkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist (Born this day 1901) It's this way: being captured is beside the point: the point is not to surrender
You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about
A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say
Those who champion democracy, but make a fetish of never accepting any- thing they don't agree with — what advantage do they see in democracy?
Politicians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music
I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples areWilliam StaffordAmerican poet and essayist (Born this day 1914) I have woven a parachute out of everything broken
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:29:25 GMT 10
I am the greatest
I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong ... No Vietcong ever called me nigger
The man with no imagination has no wings
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause — In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life
Float like a butterfly, sting like a beeMuhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.)American boxer and conscientious objector (Born this day 1942) It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:34:56 GMT 10
We cannot build the future by avenging the past
Neither force, nor argument, nor opinion … are thinking. Argument is only a display of mental force, a sort of fencing with points in order to gain a victory, not for truth. Opinions are the blind alleys of lazy or of stupid men, who are unable to think. If ever a true politician really thinks a subject out dispassionately, even Homo stultus will be compelled to accept his find- ings in the end. Opinion can never stand beside truth. At present, however, Homo impoliticus is content either to argue with opinions or to fight with his fists, instead of waiting for the truth in his head. It will take a million years, before the mass of men can be called political animals
If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment
We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble them- selves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become 'politicians'; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly outnumbered, and devotes him- self to poetry, mathematics, or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off under the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare
It is pleasant to have command, observes Sancho Panza, even over a flock of sheep, and that is why the politicians raise their banners. It is, moreover, the same thing for the sheep whatever the banner. If it is democracy, then the nine knaves will become members of par- liament; if fascism, they will become party leaders; if communism, commissars. Nothing will be different, except the name. The fools will be still fools, the knaves still leaders, the results still exploitation. As for the wise man, his lot will be much the same under any ideology. Under democracy he will be encouraged to starve to death in a garret, under fascism he will be put in a concentration camp, under communism he will be liquidated
Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as CamelotT.H. WhiteEnglish novelist ( The Once and Future King) (Died this day 1964) I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2014 7:36:04 GMT 10
We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership
I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. I've seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic common issues, and it's made me proud
I am desperate for change — now — not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now. We don’t have time to wait. We need big change — not just the shifting of power among insiders. We need to change the game, because the game is broken. When I think about the country I want to give my children, it’s not the world we have now
All I have to do is look into the faces of my children, and I realize how much work we need to do
I am tired of living in a country where every decision that we’ve made over the last ten years wasn’t for something, but it was because people told us we had to fear some- thing. We had to fear people who looked different from us. Fear people who believed in things that were different from us. Fear of one another right here in our own backyards
I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear
He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformedMichelle ObamaUS First Lady, lawyer and social activist (Born this day 1964) For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 18, 2014 6:41:25 GMT 10
Saturday’s Quotes:The less men think, the more they talk
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delightCharles de MontesquieuFrench philosopher and writer ( Lettres Persanes) (Born this day 1689) Vitam Impendere Vero(I consecrate my life to truth)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 18, 2014 6:43:34 GMT 10
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves
Keep cool; anger is not an argumentDaniel WebsterUS ante-bellum statesman and Senator (Massachusetts) (Born this day 1782) I Still Live!(last words)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 18, 2014 6:47:59 GMT 10
You are a Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs
I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose
Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!
The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life
My pick is working deep in the soil of this unknown America, turning out gold and opals and precious stones, an altar, a broken statue. And the Muse divines the meaning of the hieroglyphics. The strange life of a vanished people emerges from the mist of time
The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa, the aromatic America of Columbus, Catholic America, Spanish America, the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on a bed of roses" —our America, trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love: O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls, our America lives. And dreams. And loves. And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful
If the nation is small, one dreams it great
Rubén Darío (Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) Nicaraguan poet (The Swans and Other Poems) (Born this day 1867)
Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 18, 2014 6:48:48 GMT 10
It was a dark and stormy night…
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells
Fate laughs at probabilities
Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must
The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self
Rank is a great beautifier
The pen is mightier than the swordBro. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, First Baron LyttonEnglish politician, poet, playwright, and novelist (Zanoni) (Died this day 1873) Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverb the Arabs have, — "Curses are like young chickens, and still come home to roost”
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 18, 2014 6:50:32 GMT 10
I have decided to catch a Heffalump
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. After careful thought Piglet was comforted by this
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try — A bird with wings who dares not rise and flyA.A. MilneEnglish author (Christopher Robin & Pooh) (Born this day 1882) Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 18, 2014 6:54:15 GMT 10
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loop- hole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in themJacob BronowskiBritish mathematician and cultural historian ( The Ascent of Man) (Born this day 1908) Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty
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