Seminal quotes I've gathered over the years - my collection. Hopefully all or most of the bad stuff is going away very soon, and we will soon begin a new set of seminal quotes...
**** THE GOOD ****
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."
--Lord Acton
"Money is gold, and nothing else."
-- JP Morgan
"Gold Is Currency; No Fiat Currency, Including the Dollar, Can Match It"
-- Alan Greenspan
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
-- Margaret Thatcher
"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses."
-- Plato
"Truth is treason in an empire of lies"
-- George Orwell
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
-- Goethe
"It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
-- Mark Twain
"All truth passes thru three stages: First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
--Arthur Schopenhauer
"The penalty that good men pay for not being involved in politics is that they will be ruled by evil men."
-- Socrates
"If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it."
-- Mark Twain
"The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government."
-- Thomas Paine
Whoever expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization expects what never was and never will be.
--Thomas Jefferson
“The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
-- Thomas Jefferson
“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
-– President James Garfield, 2 weeks before his assassination.
"When the people fear the government you have tyranny. When the government fears the people you have liberty."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
--Thomas Jefferson
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul's support."
--George Bernard Shaw
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it."
-- Frederic Bastiat (political economist, 1850)
"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you; when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice; you may know that your society is doomed."
-– Ayn Rand; Atlas Shrugged, 1957
"We have become a nation of thieves who use the govt to take other people's property"
-- Walter Williams
"From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."
-- Alexander Fraser Tytler (18th century historian & jurist)
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
"At its birth, America embodied the highest hopes of mankind, but is now a tragic caricature of those great ideals. As it enters the 21st century, America finds itself bankrupt morally as well as financially. Its ideals stood the test of time, but America did not."
-- Darryl Robert Schoon
The lies we tell ourselves are only exceeded by the lies perpetrated by those controlling the levers of our society.
-- Jim Quinn
The American dream was about freedom of opportunity... You had a chance. It has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated. They are told that the country's unfair and unjust, and so they join the people who protest the capitalist nature of the country in favor of somebody's promise that everybody can have everything they want.
-- Rush Limbaugh
Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.
--George Carlin
"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship."
--Senator J. William Fulbright
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
-- Leonardo da Vinci
-- George Orwell (the following 10....)
“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
“In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer…”
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
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"When fraud is the status quo, possession is the law.
-LawOfPhysics (zero hedge)
"If we don't understand the problem or the dynamics that are generating the problem, it is impossible to reach a solution or practical plan of action."
-Charles Hugh Smith
"Spontaneous imperfection is the most challenging part of any perfect plan"
-Yosef
"Being humble means recognizing we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others."
--Gordon B Hinkley
"I think with intuition. The basis of true thinking is intuition. Indeed, it is
not intellect, but intuition, which advances humanity. Intuition tells
a man his purpose in life. One never goes wrong following his feelings.
I don’t mean emotions, I mean feelings, for feelings and intuition are one."
--Albert Einstein
“There will come a point in everyone’s life where only intuition can
make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One
can never know why, but one must accept intuition as a fact.”
--Albert Einstein
“We are trained to think optimistically. We don't think other people deliberately conspire to do us harm.”
--Kim Strassel
**** THE BAD ****
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws"
-- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.”
-- Adolf Hitler
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."
--Josph Goebbels
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
--Josph Goebbels
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything."
--Joseph Stalin
“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.”
-– Edward Bernays
"The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly."
--Noam Chomsky
"When it becomes serious, you have to lie"
-- Jean-Claude Juncker
"Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, 'The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer“
-- Henry Kissinger
"Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy”
-- Henry Kissinger
"Naturally the common people do not want war, neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood, but the people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
-- Hermann Goehring (during the Nuremberg Trials, whose formula works well in the present day USA led by the Neo-Nazis)
**** MY - Far from "seminal" - just my thoughts ****
There is no substitute for insight based on experience. Its called "wisdom".
What amazes me the most about alot of people is that they do not want to know the truth, but would rather live in a fictional world of comfort of their own making.
Its best to lead by action than by words – it proves that you mean it.
The 2 biggest threats to a person’s well-being are denial and apathy.
Reality is undefeated.
Don’t chase money – it only leads to a life of slavery to it - and avoid debt - you are only truly free if you have none.
**** EXCERPT FROM DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ****
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
God Bless,
Matt T