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-Stephen Hawking
Those who questioned the paradigms of the past were called heretics. I call them revolutionaries.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert EinsteinAn illuminating blessing, your light is the answer to the problems I endure, so its you I adore, yes it is true, never take your light away.
"Hip Hop is an urban communication…a forum of expression…a projection of ideas…a reflection of life…a manifestation of consciousness…a poetical musing…a superficial thought…a random opinion…a dream realized…or a ray of light on a situation"
-Wise Intelligent
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
"The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting."
"A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective."
"Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence."
"All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him."
-Sun-Tzu
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphany as a variation of wave pressure.
-Albert Einstein
"Too many people are only willing to defend rights that are personally important to them. It's selfish ignorance, and it's exactly why totalitarian governments are able to get away with trampling on people. Freedom does not mean freedom just for the things I think I should be able to do. Freedom is for all of us. If people will not speak up for other people's rights, there will come a day when they will lose their own."
-Tony Lawrence
"Older men declare war. But it's the youth who must fight and die!"
-Herbert Hoover
"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
-Socrates
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free"
-John 8:32
"In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
-George Orwell
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
-William Shakespeare
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"I know of no country in which
there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion
as in America."
-Alexis de Tocqueville
"It's NO LONGER smart to be DUMB!"
-Wise Intelligent
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
-Thomas Jefferson
"I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things."
-Isaiah 45:7
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
-V for Vendetta
"There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine . . . been here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what, a 100,000 years, maybe 200,000. And we've only been engaged in heavy industry a little over 200 years. 200 years versus 4 1/2 billion. And we have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat? The planet isn't going away. We are."
-George Carlin
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
-Pericles 430 B.C.
"An individual's character is not defined by their circumstance, it is revealed through it."
-Peter Zaza
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
"The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is."
-Howard Zinn
"We bind ourselves together by taking hold of each other's hands so firmly and forming a circle so strong that if a tree should fall upon it, it could not shake nor break it, so that our people and grandchildren shall remain in the circle in security, peace and happiness."
-Dekaniwidah of the Iroquois
"With Republicans in Power, Man Exploits Man. with Democrats, Just the Opposite."
-Richard B. Boddie
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
-Plato
"Only the educated are free"
-Plato
"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
-Plato
"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with."
-Plato
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
-Confucius
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
-Malcolm Muggeridge
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-John F. Kennedy
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
-Albert Einstein
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
-Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppostion from mediocre minds."
-Albert Einstein
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The enlightened man is the greatest
stranger in the world; he does not seem
to belong to anybody. No organization confines
him, no community, no society, no nation.â€
-Osho
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;
the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
-Plato
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
-Buddha
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
-Buddha
"The British think they are a democracy, because they elect their representatives every five years, but they fool themselves! They are a democracy only one day in every five years!"
-Jean Jacques Rousseau