“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” ― H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." - Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
"We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the rule of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, ..." - President George H. W. Bush, on national Television -- 9/11/1991
“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.” ― Susan Polis Schutz
To develop courage, you have to start developing courage as you do any other muscle. You have to start with small things and build it up. - Maya Angelou
Where the rule of law changes depending on your ; race , colour , ability , wealth , position , religion , conformity , ideals ... Think back to the Knights Templar's Inquisition . By Spain , by Queen Isabella . Many being Burned at the Stake . Being Burned to Death at the Stake is Torture . Law has a flaw . It can be changed by those in Power , on a dime .
"In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions." - Abraham Lincoln
"The problem with the world is that there are smart people with too many doubts and stupid people with too much confidence."
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” ― Rumi
"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents." - Ezra Pound
"Countless people will hate the new world order and will die protesting against it." - H.G. Wells, The New World Order, 1939
Very articulate young Lady expressing her opinion of "what’s going on"! Only 2 minutes 20 seconds long... https://twitter.com/i/status/1325933093711044608 Cannot embed the video/twitter(?), but I thought that @samanthamarika1 was worth Quoting!!
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! " Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom! " - Takeda Shingen
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: Carl Sagan: “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ― Carl Sagan: “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
