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The American Illusion
Eye To Eye
"The longer the fear which doth keep those at bay,
the longer the night which doth keep them from day.
To believe or not to believe, one should ask of one's self.
Look in your heart within answers you seek.
From this doorway truth doth speak, will you listen?
Know thyself and you shall also know thy answers.
Lest you find thy answers hath become thy fear,
May you find it better to believe then to know."
- D. Spencer
"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."
- Henry Bessemer
"You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it."
- James Arthur Baldwin
OPEN YOUR MIND and YOUR HEART for THEY WILL GUIDE YOU to UNDERSTANDING.
You need to STRENGTHEN YOUR MIND in order to FILTER OUT LIES, MISUNDERSTANDINGS and FICTIONS. THEY will ONLY CONFUSE you.
KNOW WHO you ARE and what MAKES YOU this PERSON. INQUIRE WITHIN and BELIEVE in YOURSELF to ACCOMPLISH THIS GOAL.
RELEASE yourself from FEAR of THE UNKNOWN and those SHADOWS of DOUBT HIDING BEHIND uncertainty.
KNOW that FEAR is the GREATEST perpetrator of ILLUSION and FALSEHOOD.
Take CONTROL of your own QUEST for KNOWLEDGE.
APPLY information gathered through SELF EDUCATION, research, intuition and awareness into your interpretation and scrutiny.
Be open to those POSSIBILITIES which may come to EXIST to HELP and GUIDE you by unraveling your visions.
RELY upon FACT rather then fiction and an UNBIASED MIND rather then a CONDITIONED MIND in order to think for yourself AND humanity.
Take information received from MAINSTREAM MEDIA with a GRAIN of SALT and QUESTION it's integrity, authenticity and motive always.
MOST of ALL, use your OWN JUDGEMENT, LOGIC and COMMON SENSE.
Truths reveled will show you that LIFE is more DIFFERENT then it APPEARS.
Embrace HUMANITY.
Even in DARKNESS there is LIGHT.
- D.S.
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
- Douglas Noel Adams
"The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them."
- (Karl) Gunnar Myrdal
"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing."
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
- James Madison
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity."
- Albert Einstein
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
- James Madison
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
- Lord John Emerich (Lord Acton)
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
- John Quincy Adams
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
- Napolean Bonaparte
"Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control."
- Allen Ginsberg
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
- Saul Bellow
"The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger." [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]"
- George Walker Bush
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!"
- Albert Einstein
"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich."
- Albert Einstein
"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence."
- Henri-Fredric Amiel
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
- Albert Einstein
"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
- Aesop
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something."
- Saul Bellow
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
- Douglas Noel Adams
"The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves."
- Albert Einstein
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness."
- Archibald MacLeish
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."
- William Orville Douglas
Pope Pius VII did sign a treaty with Napoleon, but it was no secret. After the overthrow of the French Bourbon monarchy in the late 18th century, revolutionaries attacked the Catholic Church as well, confiscating property and persecuting clergy as allies of the nobility. When Napoleon Bonaparte ascended to power, however, he decided that repressing the church was bad for the nation especially when he could co-opt its authority.
"There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind."
- A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible."
- Van Wyck Brooks
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I hope that no American...will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant."
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
FUTURE AMERICA
"The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society."
- Robert Francis Kennedy
"To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately."
- Russell L(incoln) Ackoff
"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."
- Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared...to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society."
- Shirley Mount Hufstedler
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
- Akhenaton
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
- Buddha
"Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people."
- Aristotle
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."
- Hannah Arendt
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
- Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
- Leonard Bernstein
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
- Abraham Lincoln
"What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."
- John B. Gough
"... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting."
- Erma Louise Bombeck