OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

It is inconsistent with the principles of civil liberty, and contrary to the natural rights of the other members of the society, that any body of men therein should have authority to enlarge their own powers, prerogatives or emoluments without restraint.– Thomas Jefferson

“I’m not interrupting you, I’m putting our conversation in full-duplex mode.”
– Antone Roundy

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
--Socrates

LOL!

Me on FB in response to a post yesterday: Pepole are pepole, not right or wrong "government" has been shaky for millenniums... here's a aquuaponic fishing net: http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html

Somebody is always telling us in the paper how to prevent war. There is only one way in the world to prevent war and that is for every nation to tend to its own business. Trace any war and you will find some nation was trying to tell some other nation how to run their business. All these nations are interfering with some other nation’s personal affairs but with an eye to business. Why don’t we let the rest of the world act like it wants to.– Will Rogers

Originally Posted by 273 You likely know this already but I have to point out that it is a deliberate misquote from The Prisoner an influential TV series set in a place I've holidayed a few times.

No didn't before, now I do, but!

Originally Posted by jamison20000e “I’m not interrupting you, I’m putting our conversation in full-duplex mode.” – Antone Roundy

LOL!

(war) "There has never been a just one, never an honorable one -- on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The 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."

Citation: Twain, Mark. "History of War." The Mysterious Stranger (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1916).

The best vision is insight

The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched , they must be felt with the heart

Originally Posted by tahiralmas The best vision is insight The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched , they must be felt with the heart

Those are by Malcolm Forbes & Helen Keller respectively.

My Bud thinks he is smart.

He told me Onions are the only plant that make you cry.

So I threw a coconut at his face.

Government intervention dams up and diverts the energies of the people; freedom releases them to constructive purposes.– Clarence B. Carson

Few more foods for thought:

"True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers." Bishop J.S. Spong

We rely too much on Academia to tell us the truth, when ‘they’ are not really interested in the ‘truth’.

There has to be third option besides heaven and|or hell.

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Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best on one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but the two are one, and the latter is accomplished when the former is done.– William Graham Sumner

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."
--Voltaire