Quotes

"For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks...the work for which all other work is but preparation." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

 

“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”--H. L. Mencken

 

"In my opinion, GOD is the Universe. And the Universe is NOT a person. It is the Universe, after all. And the Universe, or GOD, cannot, CANNOT be imprisoned inside any man-made (yes, man-made) "holy" books. -" Giorgio Tsoukalos

 

"Religion is how man controls other men under the pretext of representing god. Spirituality is how God offers man freedom from the control of other men". -Anne Beekman

 

"Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere." - George Washington

"Some of my finest hours were spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp, and observing as far as my eyes could see." - Thomas Jefferson

 

"You can bomb the world into pieces, but you can't bomb it into PEACE". ~Michael Franti

 

"Those who cannot learn from history are DOOMED to repeat it". ~ American philosopher George Santayana

 

"Will you teach your children as we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother?...This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. One thing we know: our God is also your God. The earth is precious to him. To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator". ~ Chief Seattle of the Suquamish

 

"Belief is the wound that knowledge heals." - Ursula K. Le Guin

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative." ~ Joihn Stuart Mill

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." - Dr. Carl Sagan

"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg

“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.” - Bertrand Russell

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

"We hate what we fear; we fear what we don't understand." - Bill Rogers

 

"War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate:
Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted
liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to
unintended secondary results." ~Joseph Sobran

‎"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means."
– George Bernard Shaw