"Perhaps powerlessness is the fear that you cannot attain what you know is possible. The need to measure up, to meet someone else's standards, to fear that you are graded and judged by another is the ultimate disempowerment. Understand, your judgment of individuals is a long, broad highway to control, manipulation, and deceit. Humility comes from the recognition of equality." -Gia Simone
"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasnt the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy." -Douglas Adams
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form." -Albert Einstein
"Except for the uncontrolled and misguided mind, there is no enemy within this world." -Prahlada Maharaja
"Only a rat can win a ratrace." -Michael Franti
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." -Mahatma Gandhi
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein
"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life." -Greg Anderson
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." -Albert Camus
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." -Martin Luther King Jr.
"At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and courage to build your life around your answer." -Lee Jampolsky
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -Thomas Jefferson
"You're never where you want to be, until you want to be where you are." -Schaeffer Cox
"If you dont stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre." -Frank Zappa
"What you are, the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world." —J. Krisnamurti
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life... that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"...all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is just a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves..." -W.M. "Bill" Hicks
"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist." –Dom Helder Camara
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -Claire Wolfe
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants" -Thomas Jefferson
"Our scientific capabilities have outrun our spiritual capabilities. We now have guided missiles and misguided men." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." -Robert Brault
"All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." -William of Ockham
"Rules are created by man to control his fellows. Principles were created by God to set man free." -Raymond D. Powell
"You can only find Truth with logic if you have already found Truth without it." -G.K. Chesterton
"There exists in this country a plot to enslave every man woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot." -John F. Kennedy
"We are no longer a Republic. We are a monetary, inflationary empire." -Schaeffer Cox
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." -Henry Kissinger
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws." -Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave." -Joseph Campbell
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -Goethe
"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully." -Richard Bach
"The person ready to believe unlikely and unproved things is readily made a slave of by the crafty" -Voltaire
"The problems we face today cannot be solved by the minds that created them." -Albert Einstein
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." -Benjamin Franklin
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." -Plato
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Some even believe we [Rockefeller family] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - One World, if you will.If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it" -David Rockefeller
"Peace of mind brings peace of world." -Amanda Clearwater
"I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted" -Frederick Douglass
The Hegelian dialectical formula: A (thesis) versus B (anti-thesis) equals C (synthesis).
For example: If (A) my idea of freedom conflicts with (B) your idea of freedom then (C) neither of us can be free until everyone agrees to be a slave.
- Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value -- zero." -Voltaire
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." -Thomas Jefferson
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up." -Martin Niemoller
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery." -Jonathan Swift
"Stop filling out your forms and start filling out your lives." -Kriston Pohl
"It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." -Henry Ford
"Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion, when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing, when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favors, when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you, when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed." -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"People 'think' they know the truth, but the truth is they only know what they have been programmed to think. Very few people do independent research. That's too much work; they prefer sitting back, watching TV and letting others do their thinking for them. They do not QUESTION what has been handed them. But, if they did explore other possibilities outside of the norm...if they dreamed of a different world…and entertained the idea that we have been lied to by our leaders…maybe we would learn a little and come closer to the FREEDOM that we all rightfully deserve."
-Doug Yurshey
"To those who do listen, God promises victory and peace -- even in the midst of the turmoil." -Berit Kjos
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -John F. Kennedy
"I may not agree with what you say, but to the death I will defend your right to say it." -Voltaire
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." -Thomas Jefferson
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." -Voltaire
"As the memory of the Christian base grows ever dimmer, freedom will disintegrate.... The [old] system will not simply go on, divorced from its founding roots." -Francis Schaeffer
Bondage to Spiritual Faith;
Spiritual Faith to Courage;
Courage to Freedom;
Freedom to Abundance;
Abundance to Selfishness;
Selfishness to Complacency;
Complacency to Apathy;
Apathy to Fear;
Fear to Dependency;
Dependency to Bondage
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years."
"(Better) to be confused in the search for truth than fully confident and sound asleep in a dream of lies." -Michael Nystrom
"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death." -Voltaire
"Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you." -James Allen
"We need to stop empowering politicians, bureaucrats, and bankers, and start empowering the good within ourselves." -Raymond D. Powell
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -Thomas Jefferson
"Cycles are meaningful, and all science that has been developed in the absence of cycle knowledge is inadequate and partial. ...any theory of economics, sociology, history, medicine, or climatology that ignores non-chance rhythms is as manifestly incomplete as medicine was before the discovery of germs." -Edward R. Dewey
"Change you thoughts and change your world" -Norman Vincent Peal
"Sometimes in the winds of change, we find our true direction."
"The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it's possible." -Rich Devos
"That all persons call the same thing mine
in the sense in which each does so may be a fine thing, but it is
impracticable; or if the words are taken in the other sense, such a
unity in no way conduces to harmony. And there is another objection to
the proposal. For that which is common to the greatest number has the
least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own,
hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself
concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations,
everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects
another to fulfill; as in families many attendants are often less
useful than a few. Each citizen will have a thousand sons who will not
be his sons individually but anybody will be equally the son of
anybody, and will therefore be neglected by all alike." -Aristotle
"It's choice- not chance- that determines your destiny" -Jean Nidetch
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -Will Rogers
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it" -John F. Kennedy
"The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society" -John F. Kennedy
"We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covet means for expanding its sphere on
influence; on infiltration, instead of invasion; on subversion, instead of elections; on intimidation, instead of free choice; on gorillas by
night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has consripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit,
highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. It's preperations
are concealed, not published. It's mistakes are buried, not headlined. It's dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is
questioned. No rumor is printed. No secret is revealed." -John F. Kennedy
"Turn off American Idol and turn on C-SPAN you slaves!" -Neil Keirnan
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
Live simply,
Love generously,
Care deeply,
Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed be thy drink.
Thy will be drunk,
I will be drunk,
at home as it is in the pub.
Give us this day our foamy head,
and forgive us our spillages,
as we forgive those who spill against us.
And lead us to inebriation,
but deliver us from hangovers.
For thine are the beer,
the bitter,
and the lager.
Forever and ever,
Amen.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." -Jimi Hendrix
"Those crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who actually do." -Ronald Reagan
"Start with the person first, one single person. Then work towards the family, the neighborhood, and then the community. We have this figured out." -Nicholas J. Perella
"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." -Thomas Jefferson
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." -Samuel Adams
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour,
now you must go back and tell the people that this is THE HOUR.
And there are things to be considered...
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold onto the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore,
Push off into the river.
Keep your eyes open,
And your heads above the water.
See who is in there with you and celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally,
Least of all ourselves.
For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the One’s we've been waiting for.
-Unnamed Hopi Elder
Oraibi, Arizona
Hopi Nation
"The light of God surrounds me; The love of God enfolds me; The power of God protects me; The presence of God watches over me. Wherever I am, God is - and all is well!"
-Unity Church
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR PEACE by Dr. Jerry Jampolsky
- Forgive your parents totally.
- Forgive everyone who has ever been here, who is here now, including you.
- Forgive the world.
- Forgive God.
- Take a leap of faith by trusting in a Higher Power.
- Choose peace over conflict.
- Choose love over fear.
- Choose to be a love finder rather than a fault finder.
- Choose to give love rather than seek love.
- Teach only love.
- Be a ‘Teacher of Peace’.
- Cherish your soul.
"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A society that believes in nothing is particularly frightened by people who believe in anything"
"If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?" -Tom Robbins
"In the 60s, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal."
"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." -Bertrand Russell
"If you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, then maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore." -Tori Amos
"Everything popular is wrong." -Oscar Wilde
“If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.” - Ray Bradbury
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change." -Frank Lloyd Wright
"Dream as if you live forever, live as if you die today" -James Dean
"Better to starve free than be a fat slave" -Aesop
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking, so that others won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us. It's not just in some of us: it's in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Marianne Williamson
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes... Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." -Napoleon Bonaparte
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money." -Sir Josiah Stamp, Former Director fo the Bank of England
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a one world Godless government. The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." -David Rockefeller
"The art of illuminism lay in enlisting dupes as well as adepts, and by encouraging the dreams of honest visionaries or the schemes of fanatics. By flattering the vanity of ambitious egotists, by working on unbalanced brains, or by playing on such passions as greed and power, to make men of totally divergent aims serve the secret purpose of the sect. People with money were welcome but kept oblivious of actual secrets. The purpose is to win power and riches. To undermine secular or religious government and attain the masters of the world." -Nesta Webster
"In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties." -Albert Einstein
"The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness." -Bob Marley
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." -Voltaire
"Q: How many americans does it take to nationalize a company?
A: Three. The president, the Treasury secretary and the Federal Reserve chairman."
-George Hara
"Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think." -Henry Ford
"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction, rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." -John Kenneth Galbraith
"It is a cliché that if we do not study the past we are condemned to repeat it. Almost equally certain, however, is that if there are lessons to be learned from an historical episode, the political class will draw all the wrong ones – and often deliberately so." -Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
"Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy." -Matt Taibbi
"Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it." -Ayn Rand
"We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people, we need to get good people to restrain bad laws." -G.K. Chesterton
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." -Joseph Goebbels
"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself." -Anna Jameson
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. " -Jules de Gaultier
Agreement 1: Be impeccable with your word - Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Agreement 2: Don’t take anything personally - Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
Agreement 3: Don’t make assumptions - Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
Agreement 4: Always do your best - Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
-Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
"...experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." -Thomas Jefferson
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." -David Friedman
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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
"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The answer is liberty- very simple. True liberty means not trying to stop people from doing things that you may not like. It means not running other people's lives. It means minding your own god damn business. Live and Let Live!" -Amanda Trbovich
"I am warrior of my heart, my home, and my land, not of the false pretenses that attempt to govern it." -Blaze Morningstar
"If you approach experience and perception with a framework of limited consciousness or only what you believe to be possible from prior experiences, you severely limit the possibilities of your own experience. Your thoughts are filtered by your beliefs. Change your definitions that create your beliefs and anything is possible." -Gia Simone
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