Quotes

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
-Albert Einstein

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. You may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. You may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate, nor establish love. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, 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.

"Religion is based...mainly on fear...fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and ther efore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.... My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race."
-Bertrand Russell

“The only true wisdom
is in knowing you know nothing.”
-Socrates

“On both sides of the river grew the tree of life…and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”
-Book of Revelations 22:2

“The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits
Your habits become your values
Your values become your destiny”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“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

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt."
-Mahatma Gandhi
“When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.”
-H. K. Barclay

“Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
-Robert H. Schuller

“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”
-Robert H. Schuller

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country…corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864

“Give me Liberty or give me death! America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
- Abraham Lincoln

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
-Buddha

"Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is."
-Winston Churchill
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!"
-Winston Churchill
"Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning."
-William Shakespeare
"The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society."
-John F. Kennedy
"And there is very grave danger that in announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment."
-John F. Kennedy
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
-John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."
-George Orwell, 1984
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
-George Orwell, 1984

“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.”
-George Orwell, 1984

"Vi veri ueniversum vivus vici." English Translation "By the power of truth, I, a living man, have conquered the universe"
-Christopher Marlowe's 'The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus'

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
-Edward Abbey
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
- Dresden James

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower 1961
"...there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
-President Woodrow Wilson, 1913

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
-President Woodrow Wilson

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always be kept alive."
-Thomas Jefferson

"A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary to the sound health of government."
-Thomas Jefferson
(In a letter to James Madison - 3rd U.S. President)

"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of the body and mind will vanish like spirits in the dawn of day."
-Thomas Jefferson

"In matters of Power, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
-Thomas Jefferson

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
-Ben Franklin

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
-Harry Truman

“Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness -- enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.”
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”
-Claude Bernard

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.”
-Confucius

"To remain apathetic is assured enslavement.”
-William Cooper

"People should not be afraid of their governments... Governments should be afraid of their people!"
-V (V for Vendetta)

“It’s called the “American Dream” because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
-George Carlin

"Turn off your TV and think for yourself. Free your Minds, Find your Souls, and Join the Revolution. The Future starts now!"
- Anonymous

"If we unite we will triumph. Consciousness is the most powerful force in the universe but we have been manipulated into using our own consciousness against oursleves, creating the reality that we despise."
-Anonymous

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce and brave man, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
-Mark Twain
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
-Edmund Burke
“O me! O life!...of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here- that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
-Walt Whitman

“The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.”
-Steindahl, Love 1822

“I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education”
-Mark Twain

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce and brave man, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
-Mark Twain
"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."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force, like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
-George Washington

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
-James Madison

"The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone."
-James Madison
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so."
-Unknown

"The Constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper."
-President George W. Bush, Nov. 2005
"We cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun, that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
-President George W. Bush
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
-President George W. Bush Jr., June 18, 2002

"War is Peace"
-Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984