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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 04:53:27 AM
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Thoughts
for Today
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"If sunbeams were weapons of war,
we would have had solar energy centuries ago" May 30.
"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression,
while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace."
May 29.
"Of all forms of tyranny the least
attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere
wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy” May 28.
"When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed
and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense
of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are
working to make things better" May 27.
"So long as the people do not care to
exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do
so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote
themselves in the name of any number of gods, religions and
otherwise, to put shackles on sleeping men." May 26.
"Political language is designed to make
lies sound truthful and murder respectable." May 25.
"If men use their liberty in such a way as
to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less
slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over
them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their
own making?" May 24.
"To change masters is not to be free" May 23.
"The jaws of power are always open to
devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to
destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing" May 22.
"They could be made to accept the most
flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully
grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were
not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what
was happening" May 21.
"Men never do evil so completely and
cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" May 20.
"Conviction is the basis of courage, certitude is the
foundation of peace. The secret of achievement is to have
the peaceful courage of possessing the truth and acting on
this conviction in everything we do" May 19.
"Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters,
but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves.
Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good
cause on Earth" May 18.
"War seems to me to be a mean,
contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than
take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high,
in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that
I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had
the sound sense of the nations not been systematically
corrupted by commercial and political interests acting
through the schools and the Press" May 17.
"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever
borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for
both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both" May 16.
"I have seen men march to
the wars, and then I have watched their
homeward tread, And they brought back bodies
of living men, But their eyes were cold and
dead" May 15.
"Strike against war, for without
you no battles can be fought! Strike against
manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other
tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that
means death and misery to millions of human beings!
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of
destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!" May 14.
"They could be made to accept the
most flagrant violations of reality, because they
never fully grasped the enormity of what was
demanded of them, and were not sufficiently
interested in public events to notice what was
happening" May 13.
"Don't ever let them pull you down
so low as to hate them." (also cited as: "I will
permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by
making me hate him.") May 12.
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true" Demosthenes (384-322 BC) May 11.
"They say that we are disturbing the
peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is
that we are disturbing the war" May 10.
“It demands great spiritual resilience not
to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even
greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your
child to hate.” May 09.
"We allow the most atrocious lies uttered by political and moral prostitutes to
go unchallenged. These lies are endlessly recycled in the commercial media until
they become ingrained in the public conscience as truth. Worse than burying our
heads in the sand, we bury them up our collective ass. How do you like the
view?" May 08.
"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we own
only the truth." May 07.
"In this 3rd dimension you're free to believe anything you want, as long as it's not the TRUTH" May 06.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the
tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely
often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the
privilege of owning yourself." May 05.
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look
into your own heart…. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." May 04.
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an
idea whose time has come" May 03.
"Perhaps the reason why no one is supposed
to know what happens after death is that if we did, many people
would commit suicide?" May 02.
"Be wary of he who would deny you access to
information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master"
May 01.
"The true patriot does not love his government. The true patriot loves his
country and watches his government."
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