Quotes From
Planet Earth
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -Helen Keller
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny..." -Isaac Asimov
"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success" -Nikola Tesla
"I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
"It is well enough that 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, Founder of Ford
Motor Company
"...he realized how easy it was to present an appearance
of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way,
the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable
of understanding it. 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. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply
swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left
no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body
of a bird." - George Orwell 1984
"One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you end up being ruled by your inferiors" -
Plato
?I believe that
water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which
constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of
heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.? ? Jules Verne,
The Mysterious Island (1874)
" The Matrix is a system, and that system is
our enemy. When you are inside it, you look around and what do you see?
Businessmen, Teachers, Lawyers, Carpenters. The very minds of the people we are
trying to save. But until we do, these people are part of that system and that
makes them our enemies. You have to understand that most of these people are not
ready to be `unplugged`. And many are so hopelessly dependent on the system,
that they will fight to defend it " - The Matrix
"The person who says it
cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." - Chinese
Proverb
"Patience
serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put
on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in
like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they
will then be powerless to vex your mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The time
will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now
look on the murder of men." -Leonardo da Vinci
"Science is but a perversion of itself unless
it has, as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity." -Nikola Tesla
-1919
"There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes
to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for one hundred years."
- Henry Ford
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we
despise, we don't believe in it at all." -Noam Chomsky
"If Tyranny and
Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign
enemy." - James Madison
"Since, in the long run, every planetary
civilization will be eddangered by impacts from space, every surviving
civilization is obliged to become space-faring--not because of exploratory or
romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If
our long term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our
species to venture to other worlds." - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot 1994
"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. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the
people, to whom it properly belongs."
-Thomas Jefferson
(Letter to the
Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802) and later published in The
Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill (1809))
"Many people believe
everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be
enough to tell them otherwise." -Terry Goodkind
"Those who
surrender liberty for security deserve neither." - Ben Franklin
"In times of universal deceit, telling
the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell, 1984
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank
and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by
mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice...Heroism at command,
senseless brutality, deplorable love-of- country stance - how violently I hate
all this; how despicable and ignoble war is...I would rather be torn to shreds
than be part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the
cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." --Albert Einstein
"Never
do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." - Albert
Einstein
"We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live
in a time where we have fictitious election results, that elect a fictitious
president.
We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for
fictitious reasons,"
- Michael Moore (film director) 2003
"Even if you are in a minority of one, the
truth is still the truth". - Ghandi
"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. How do I know? This is what I have done." - Julius
Caesar
"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are
taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is
called at once a lunatic and fool" - Plato.
"The few who understand the
system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its
favors that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other
hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the
tremendous advantages...will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps
without suspecting that the system is inimical to their best interests." -
Rothschild Brothers of London communiqué to associates in New York June 25, 1863
"If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not
look for some sort of escape." - David Brower
"I come very briefly to this place..."
- Laurie Anderson from "Mr. Heartbreak"
"Beware the grin of the binary cat." - unknown
"College isn't the place to go for
ideas." - Helen Keller (1916)
"The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers,
the land speculators
and for the exploiters of labor." - Helen Keller (1911)
"We the people are not free. Our democracy is but a name, We vote? What does
that mean?
It means that we choose between Teedledum and Tweedledee. We
elect expensive masters to do our work for us,
and then blame them because
they work for themselves and for their class." - Helen Keller (1911)
"The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in
revolutionary times
vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and
authorities, but in spite if them." - Helen Keller (1919)
"The few who
profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army
which will protect the interests of the capitalists." - Helen Keller (1916)
"...you stupid, vulgar, greedy,
ugly american death sucker....
...the ugly American; the instrument of
control" - William S. Burroughs
"May time and space continually fold themselves into origami wildflowers
yearning for your approval." - Mike Mossey
"Religion -- its what
keeps the poor from slaughtering the rich." - unknown
"The real truth of
the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers
has owned the government of the U.S.
since the days of Andrew Jackson." --
Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell
House