Fen's Collected Quotes
Below are a few of my collected quotes. Enjoy!
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Life
The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.
Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was joy,
I awoke and saw that life was service,
I acted and behold, service was joy.Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
We are praying that mankind does wake up and think about the future, for we haven't just inherited this earth from our ancestors, but we are borrowing it from our unborn children.
Joseph Chasing Horse
We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
Wilma Mankiller, Principal Chief
Cherokee Nation of OklahomaThere is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine
nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.how good it is:
nor how valuable it is;You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate YOU.
There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.Keep the channel open . . .
No artist is pleased . . .Martha Graham to Agnes DeMille
How You Are Does Not Matter.
What matters is How You Are in Relation to How You Are.Peter Rengel
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity.
Pogo
Life is uncertain, always eat dessert first.
There is only one real blasphemy: the refusal of joy.
Paul Rudnick
Do you know why angels can fly?
Because they take themselves lightly!You can't change the world
But you can change your perception of the world
And if you can change your perception of the world
Then you can change the world!Barry Brilliant
If you don't have a sense of humor about it, then it isn't funny.
Wavy Gravy
Breathe into the hard times.
Dahlia (of Jim &...), Ivy Lane, circa 1987
People single me out for being an activist, but I always say that the impulse is inborn - it just needs to be nurtured. It starts when you're little, and you see some kids being unkind to another kid on the bus. Maybe you do something. Maybe you don't. But there was that little hint in your brain that something was wrong, that you weren't comfortable with the situation.
Throughout your life, you have the opportunity to learn from that experience, to react to that little voice inside of you that says something has crossed your moral bottom line, to ignore what others are telling you to do and honor your impulse. The very core of being an activist is being true to yourself.
Susan Sarandon
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 and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people 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 own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love, Harper Collins 1993
Read by Nelson Mandela in his Inauguration Speech, May 1994A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.
Rosellen Brown
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
opening passage of A Tail of Two Cities
by Charles DickensInstructions for Life from the Dalai Lama
- Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
- Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.
- Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
- When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
- Spend some time alone every day.
- Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
- A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
- In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
- Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
- Be gentle with the earth.
- Once a year, go some place you've never been before.
- Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
- Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
- Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Ninety percent of life is just showing up.
Woody Allen
Love and Spirit
I know you, you're just like me.
Stan Dale
When true giving occurs, you have more afterwards than when you started.
Peter Rengel
When you hold back your Love
Hoping to find more elsewhere,
You learn how to wait,
Not how to Love.Peter Rengel
Love is trust
Love is smell
Love is how you treat someone well under pressure.someone on the WELL
For what we are beginning to wake up to today ...is that we have for millenia structured our social instititions and our systems of values precisely in ways that serve to block, distort, and pervert our enormous human yearning for loving connections.
Riane Eisler, "Sacred Pleasure", p. 383
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Joseph Campbell
Ego is convinced that Love is dangerous.
A Course in Miracles
There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney and pass on their way. Now, you must tend that inward fire, wait patiently for the hour when somebody will come and sit down near it -- to stay there maybe?
Van Gogh, Letters to Theo
Womanist: Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. LOVES the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. LOVES the Folk. Loves herself. REGARDLESS.
Alice Walker
How to fix people (listening for engineers :-)
People have really good built in diagnostics.
If you listen well the will tell you what is wrong.
If you listen really well they will hear what is wrong.
If you're an expert listener they will hear what is wrong and realize they no longer need fixing.John Pettitt
Symptoms of Inner Peace
Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition of conflict in the world.
Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:
- A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.
- An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
- A loss of interest in judging other people.
- A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
- A loss of interest in conflict.
- A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom).
- Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
- Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
- Frequent attacks of smiling.
- An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen.
- An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.
Liberty, Freedom
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated
the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791. ME 8:276
The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure.
Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823. ME 15:491
The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers.
Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp
Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632What county can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance.
Thomas Jefferson
The true barriers of our liberty in this country are our state governments...
Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law," because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce: with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.
Publius (Madison)
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it.
James Madison
Anarchism is a tendency in the history of human thought and action which seeks to identify coercive, authoritarian, and hierarchic structures of all kinds and to challenge their legitimacy -- and if they cannot justify their legitimacy, which is quite commonly the case, to work to undermine them and expand the scope of freedom.
Noam Chomsky
In the United States we value security more than freedom.
Hugh Daniels
I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'
Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw, Liberty
Truth : the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.
Richard Childers
The antidote for misuse of freedom of speech is more freedom of speech.
Molly Ivans
They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a communist;
They came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because I was not a socialist;
They came for the union leaders, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a union leader;
They came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me.Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
William O. Douglas, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
Governance, Laws, Politics
It would be easy for us, if we do not learn to understand the world and appreciate the rights, privileges and duties of all other countries and peoples, to represent in our power the same danger to the world that fascism did.
Ernest Hemingway
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Seneca, 65 AD
When you replace speed cameras with duds, what you're doing is giving people a false sense of insecurity.
Bill Lockyer, California Attorney General (2002)
Politics. From the greek "poly," meaning many, and "ticks," a small, annoying bloodsucker.
Dave Barry
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa
QUESTION AUTHORITY! THINK FOR YOURSELF....
Before it becomes illegal. You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Anarchism is a tendency in the history of human thought and action which seeks to identify coercive, authoritarian, and hierarchic structures of all kinds and to challenge their legitimacy -- and if they cannot justify their legitimacy, which is quite commonly the case, to work to undermine them and expand the scope of freedom.
Noam Chomsky
Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.
August Spies, Haymarket anarchist
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that enough good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Quoted in Sam J. Ervin, Jr., "Protecting the Constitution"
Michie, 1984Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Facts are a better basis for decisions than ideology.
Howard Dean (campaign 2004)
Gone are the far-off days of worthy debate. Politics today has to be sold to a viewer whose finger is poised over the television zapper. The 1988 campaign set new lows ... [it] also demonstrated the power of image-making in changing a result.
The Economist, August 17-23, 1991
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln (quoted in Jack London's The Iron Heel).
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
C.A. Beard
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
Benjamin Franklin
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.
Edward Dowling (1941)
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretions.
Thomas Jefferson, 1802
The single most powerful faction in politics today is not liberalism or conservatism, but privilege and corruption.
Paul Kienitz, 2001
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
Alexander Tyler
(regarding the fall of the Athenian Republic)Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
Dave Barry
Rebellion (Sewing the Seeds of)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.
Bruce Sterling, CFP '94
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire, educator (1921-1997)
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
god forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion . . . the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson, writing to William Smith (1755-1816)
appearing to welcome Shays' RebellionA little rebellion is a good thing now and then.
Thomas Jefferson
Anarchy, it is not the law, it is just a good idea.
Paxus Calta
"All I want is peace on earth, good will toward men."
"We're the United States Government. We don't do that sort of thing!"
from the movie Sneakers
It's not the voting that's Democracy, it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard (1972)
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Jerry Garcia
We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit . . . . if we appear to seek the unattainable, then let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable.
the Port Huron Statement, 11-June-1962,
Students for a Democratic Society)The U.S. Constitution may not be perfect, but it's better than what we've got now.
Sandy Shaw
They're just rules.... They're written in a book, not carved in stone. And even if they were in stone, so what? A bunch of us just made them up.
Grand Nagus Gint to Quark, Deep Space 9
Philosophy
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything in the universe.
John Muir
You'll see it when you believe it.
Wayne Dyer
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical_Essays"
If you have time to chatter,
Read a book.
If you have time to read,
Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.
If you have time to walk,
sing songs and dance.
If you have time to dance,
Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot.
Nanao Sakaki, Kyoto 1966
Second from the right and straight on 'til morning.
Peter Pan
You can observe a lot by just watching.
Yogi Berra
Specialization is for Insects.
Robert A. Heinlein
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Maslow
Heaven is exactly like where you are now, only much, much better.
Laurie Anderson
Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother and are not all living things with feet and roots their children?
Black Elk
We are four dimensional beings in three dimensional bodies, looking out two-dimensional windshields.
Cowboy Neal at the Wheel
I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use.
Galileo
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Santayana
That the birds of worry and care fly above your head,
This you cannot change;
But that they build nests in your hair,
This you can prevent.Chinese proverb
Transcend, Motherfucker, Transcend!
Cindy Lou Cosgrove
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
Introduction to A Course In Miracles
Mathematics is the music of the mind. Music is the mathematics of the soul.
Moe Zimmerberg channeling for Sarah...
Anything is possible, if you don't care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors.
Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.Mahatma Gandhi
Music is the timeless experience of constant change.
Jerry Garcia
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
If only I had known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler!
Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
If science always insists that a new order must be immediately fruitful, or that it has some new predictive power, then creativity will be blocked. New thoughts generally arise with a play of the mind, and the failure to appreciate this is actually one of the major blocks to creativity. Thought is generally considered to be a sober and weighty business. But here it is being suggested that creative play is an essential element in forming new hypotheses and ideas. Indeed, thought which tries to avoid play is in fact playing false with itself. Play, it appears, is the very essence of thought.
This notion of falseness that can creep into play of thought is shown in the etymology of the words illusion, delusion, and collusion, all of which have as their Latin root ludere, "to play." So illusion implies playing false with perception; delusion, playing false with thought; collusion, playing false together in order to support each other's illusions and delusions. When thought plays false, the thinker may occasionally recognize this fact, and express it in the above words. Unfortunately, however, our English language does not have a word for thought which plays true. Perhaps this is a reflection of a work ethic which does not consider the importance of play and suggests that work itself is noble while play is, at best, recreational and, at worst, frivolous and nonserious. However, to observe children at play is to realize the serious intensity of their energy and concentration.
David Bohm and F. David Peat,
Science, Order, and CreativityScience becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
George Bernard Shaw
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.
Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.
Robert F. Kennedy,
in an address at the University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas, March 18, 1968Be ashamed to die till you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
I'm glad you asked, son. Being popular is the most important thing in the world.
Homer Simpson
It is possible to commit no mistakes, and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.
Jean-Luc Picard
You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?
Richard Bach, One
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side.
Han Solo
The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.
Woody Allen
Trust in Allah,
and tie your camel!Sufi saying
You can believe anything you want. The universe is not obliged to keep a straight face.
Solomon Short
Man plans, God laughs.
John Perry Barlow
We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there.
Dana Gould
ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
Sex
Sexual modesty cannot then in any simple way be identified with the use of clothing, nor shamelessness with the absence of clothing and total or partial nakedness. There are circumstances in which total nakedness is not immodest....Nakedness as such is not to be equated with physical shamelessness. Immodesty is only present when nakedness plays a negative role with regard to the value of the person...The human body is not in itself shameful, nor for the same reasons are sensual reactions, and human sensuality in general. Shamelessness (just like shame and modesty) is a function of the interior of the individual.
Pope John-Paul II
(with thanks to W.D. Peckenpaugh)To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.
Don Schrader
Abstinence is the mother of shameless lust.
Pat Califa
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer
Brevity is the soul of lingerie
Dorothy Parker
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
Mae West
Sex with groupies is meaningless. After ten years, I'd had enough.
Ozzy Osbourne
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
Billy Crystal
You know "that look" women get when they want sex? Me neither.
Steve Martin
Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
Woody Allen
I don't like sex on television. I keep falling off.
Saul Feldman
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
Tom Clancy
We are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy unless it obstructs interstate commerce.
J. Edgar Hoover
I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.
Frank Zappa
When choosing between two evils, I always take the one I've never tried before.
Mae West
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
George Burns
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Sharon Stone
Ah, yes, divorce - from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams
My girlfriend always laughs during sex---no matter what she's reading.
Steve Jobs
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.
Roseanne
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
Billy Crystal
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
Rod Stewart
In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra. Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women's breasts?
Hugh Grant
When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
Elizabeth Taylor
According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.
Robert De Niro
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Jack Nicholson
The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want?"
Freud
Peace (and War)
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
All we are saying is give peace a chance
John Lennon
All wars are fought for money.
Socrates, 469-399 B.C.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
War is Terrorism with a Bigger Budget
sign at the SF peace rally, 1/18/2003
...it seemed to me we had the kind of awakening that the great religions first intended, and that somehow it involved everybody. There were kids there. There were old people there, and in other parts of the building there were people just dancing and dancing... we had a chance to awaken our hearts, unbound by any particular cultural or religious commitments to this group or that. It seemed to me, and I'm meaning this very seriously, a prime religious experience that transcended all the bondages and definitions of who and what we are that are the curse of the world today. This, I would say, is the answer to the atom bomb.
Joseph Campbell
speaking about watching Deadheads
at a Grateful Dead Show (1988)Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Violence := Any act that reduces self-esteem
There is no way to peace, peace is the way
A.J. Muste
You cannot simultaneously prepare for and prevent war.
Albert Einstein
Nuclear war would really set back cable.
Ted Turner
When the song of the angel is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the Kings and Princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flocks
The real work of Christmas begins.To find the lost
To heal the broken
To feed the hungry
To release the prisoners
To rebuild the nations
To bring peace among brothers
To make music in the heart.Nineteenth Century Quaker Benediction
Traditionally Spoken at ChristmasThe loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.'
Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity.
Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier--but do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation--pulpit and all--will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open.
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger," 1910
STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.Joshua - the computer simulation in War Games
after trying to find a way to "win" at nuclear war
The War On Some Drugs
Psychedelics often produce psychotic and even violent behavior in those that have never used them.
Timothy Leary
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual that the use of the drug itself.
President Jimmy Carter, 2-August-1977
We felt the effects of herb were so dangerous that it was better to lie to the american public to save them rather than tell them the truth...
Partnership for a Drug Free America
Be compassionate: Don't say "straight", say "psychedelically challenged"!
Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight diziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, character- ized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dremlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an un- interrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors.
Albert Hofmann
Information, Networks
National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway.
Information is the currency of democracy.
Thomas Jefferson
What's information really about? It seems to me there's something direly wrong with the "Information Economy." It's not about data, it's about attention. In a few years you may be able to carry the Library of Congress around in your hip pocket. So? You're never gonna read the Library of Congress. You'll die long before you access one tenth of one percent of it. What's important -- increasingly important -- is the process by which you figure out what to look at. This is the beginning of the real and true economics of information. Not who owns the books, who prints the books, who has the holdings. The crux here is access, not holdings. And not even access itself, but the signposts that tell you what to access -- what to pay attention to. In the Information Economy everything is plentiful -- except attention.
Bruce Sterling, from a speech to the
Library Information Technology Association
June 1992, San Francisco CAWhen I user a word it means exactly what I want it to mean, nothing more and nothing less.
Humpty Dumpty from Alice in Wonderland
It's not the bits, it's the about the bits.
Nicholas Negroponte
Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized; do you follow that?
In other words, this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from outside.
In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos...
William Gaddis, JR