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Thought for Today
- Collected by Wes Penre
(Posted here: Nov 20, 2005)
December 2005
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Thoughts Archive
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December 31.
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"
Albert Einstein
*December 30.
"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true."
Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddhartha
*December 29.
"Do not say, that if the people do good to us, we will do good to them; and if the people oppress us, we will oppress them; but determine that if people do you good, you will do good to them; and if they oppress you, you will not oppress them"
Muhammad
*December 28.
"War is like a big machine that no one really knows how to run and when it gets out of control it ends up destroying the things you thought you were fighting for, and a lot of other things you kinda forgot you had."
Anonymous
*December 27.
"To change masters is not to be free"
Jose Marti y Perez
*December 26.
"Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?"
Adlai Stevenson
*December 25.
"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world"
Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888
*December 24.
"In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king"
Erasmus c.1469 - 1536
*December 23.
"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
William Blake
*December 22.
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." : Frank Herbert
*December 21.
"Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people"
Black Hugo L.
*December 20.
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
John Milton*
December 19.
"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own"
H.G. Wells*
December 18.
"Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful."
Udana Varga 5:18
*December 17.
"To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business"
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy : Russian author, 1828-1910*
December 16.
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world"
Albert Camus*
December 15.
"Most people want security in this world, not liberty"
Henry Louis Mencken: American journalist, 1880-1956*
December 14.
"The soul of our country needs to be awakened . . .When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders"
Veterans Fast for Life
*December 13.
"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
Sir Francis Bacon
*December 12.
"And reason...teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions"
John Locke
*December 11.
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you"
Friedrich Nietzsche
*December 10.
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
Booker T. Washington - (1856-1915) Author
*December 09.
"We are the ruling race of the world. . . . We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. . . . He has marked us as his chosen people. . . . He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples."
Sen. Alfred Beveridge
*December 08.
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
Samuel Adams
*December 07.
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it"
Mohandas Gandhi
*December 06.
Fear always springs from ignorance
Ralph Waldo Emerson : American lecturer, poet, and essayist, 1803-1882
*December 05.
"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive."
Henry Steele Commager - (1902-1998) Historian and author
*December 04.
"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management"
Edward Kennedy
*December 03.
"From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair."
William Blum
*December 02.
"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."
Marshall McLuhan - (1911-1980)
*December 01.
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves"
Edward R. Murrow
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