------------------------------------------------------------------ AMERICA'S SLIPPERY SLOPE We recognize the debasement of standards, we see the sighs of intellectual decay. Yet we do nothing. And our inaction is our complicity. Each time we shrug helplessly in the face of diminished expectation, we are greasing the slope of an already rapid collective decline. -- Sarah Nardi -- (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org), Journal of Mental Environment, #78, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 501 3.9.2008 Mc Copies & D. Stribute ! 2135 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If we want to save the planet Earth, to save live and humanity, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system. If we do not put an end to the capitalist system, it's impossible to imagine that there will be equality an justice on Earth. This is why I believe that it is important to put an end to the exploitation of human beings and to put an end to the pillage of natural resources; to put an end to destructive war for raw materials and for the market; to the plundering of energy, particularly fossil fuels, excessive consumption of goods and the accumulation of waste. The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. -- Evo Morales, Socialist, President of Bolivia -- (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org), Journal of Mental Environment, #78, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 502 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. -- Walter Benjamin, in the 1930s -- (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org), Journal of Mental Environment, #78, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 503 ------------------------------------------------------------------ INFORMATION WANTS TO BE AD-FREE The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we can see, we cannot think. -- Thomas Merton -- (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org), Journal of Mental Environment, #78, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 504 ------------------------------------------------------------------ No wise man ever wished to be younger. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -- Plato (428-348 B.C.) -- -- quoted by Robert J. Sawyer in "rollback" (2007) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 505 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in bear it that th'opposed may beware of thee. -- Hamlet Never start a fight - but always finish it. -- J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5, #3.10 and #5.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 506 30.10.008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ein Anleger fragt seinen Anlageberater: "Ist jetzt wirklich all mein Geld weg? Alles weg?" -- "Aber nein, das ist doch nicht weg. Es gehoert jetzt nur jemand anderem!" -- Client: "So my money is really all gone? All of it gone?" -- Investment advisor: "Why no, of course it's not gone. It just belongs to someone else now!" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 507 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. -- General Omar Bradley (1893-1981) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 508 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. -- Samuel P. Huntington ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 509 7.11.008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power. -- Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) as quoted in -- -- http://thinkexist.com/quotation/fascism_should_more_ appropriately_be_called/163211.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 510 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Luxury spending in the U$ is growing more than four times as rapidly as spending overall. -- from "Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway train" by Brian Czech In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but in his face. -- Diogenes -- -- adbusters #80 ( www.adbusters.org ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 511 12.11. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. Don't take it unless you have someone that's very experienced with you to guide you through it. And don't take it unless you are ready to have your perspective on yourself and your life radically changed. -- Dr. Timothy Leary (1920-1996) in Documentary CBC: "How To Go Out of Your Mind: The LSD Crisis" (1966) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 512 22.11.008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT THERE IS IS ALL THERE IS WHAT THERE IS IS ALL THERE IS LEFT -- robert wolff ( www.wildwolff.com ), 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 513 24.11. ------------------------------------------------------------------ They used to say that a child conceived in love has a greater chance of happiness. They don't say that anymore. -- G A T T A C A http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 514 26.11.008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.) Fuer den Triumph des Boesen reicht es, wenn die Guten nichts tun. -- Hitler-Aufstieg des Boesen, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346293 (probably mis-)attributed to Edmund Burke (1729-97), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 515 27.12.008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Neo-'liberalism' is an economic theory that liberates corporate power from any kind of state control, [and thus] justifies corporate plunder of the environment, corporate poisoning and exploitation of consumers, and corporate exploitation and spiritual and physical mutilation of workers. -- Christian Parenti in "The Pie's the Limit" (2000) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242778/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 516 10.1.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. -- William Blake, The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818) -- quoted in "DEAD MAN" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112817/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 517 18.03.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeder zweite Raucher stirbt an den Folgen des Rauchens. Jeder Zweite. Das ist also wie russisches Roulette...aber mit drei Kugeln. --Prof. Peter Drings, AErztlicher Direktor der Thoraxklinik Heidelberg (wo jeden Tag etwa ein Raucher an den Folgen seiner Sucht stirbt) => Allein in D > 300 Mio Evro/Jahr fuer TabakWerbung <= ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 518 20.03.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are 'neutral' in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. -- Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu (*1931) I don't believe it's possible to be neutral. The world is already moving in certain directions. And to be neutral, to be passive, in a situation like that, is to collaborate with what is going on. And I, as a teacher, don't want to be a collaborator. -- Howard Zinn (*1922) in: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416825/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 519 10.4.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ What seems to me a - in a sense - very terrifying aspect of our society, and of other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe such events. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler or LeMay or other that crops up. These people would not be able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity. And therefore I think that it's in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who share a very serious burden of guilt, which they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme or more violent. -- Prof. Noam Chomsky in "Manufacturing Consent.." (1992) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104810/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 520 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.3 TRILLION DOLLARS === 2,300,000,000,000 $$ $ 2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon (!!!) "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," (Secretary of WAR) Rumsfeld admitted, on 2001-09-10 (!!) ... just google: '2.3 trillion dollars' ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 521 ------------------------------------------------------------------ OWNING IS OWING; HAVING IS HOARDING. -- Ursula K. LeGuin (*1929), where? -- as quoted by robert wolff in 'Realities' http://www.wildwolff.com/essays/realities.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 522 20.4.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ In the words of the old African proverb, WHEN YOU PRAY, MOVE YOUR FEET ! -- An Inconvenient Truth, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116 Man kann nicht sagen, Gebete nuetzen nichts; nur muessen ihnen auch Handlungen folgen! -- Ringu Tulku Rinpoche in "Buddhismus aktuell" 3/2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 523 22.4. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies ... -- Harold Pinter (1930-2008) in his acceptance speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 524 12.5. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Loesung heisst: T E I L E N . The solution is: S H A R I N G . www.Momentaufnahme.at ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 525 25.05. ----------------------------------------------------------------- One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available. -- Stephen Hawking in "The 11th Hour" (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492931/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 526 21.06.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You are lost when you forget that the fruits belong to everyone and the Earth to noone. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), - Discours -- -- quoted in www.Momentaufnahme.at (2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 527 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Women perform 66% of the world's work and get 5% of the income. -- www.Momentaufnahme.at (2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 528 22./30.06.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Glueck gehabt Schon gut, dass Neid keinen Durchfall verursacht, sonst wuerden 70% der Deutschen 24 Stunden am Tag auf dem Klo zubringen. -- Ulli Stein "Normal ist das nicht! - Tagebuch II" 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 529 11.7.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Der Optimismus ist eine entfremdete Form des Glaubens, der Pessimismus eine entfremdete Form der Verzweiflung. Die Pessimisten unterscheiden sich im Grunde kaum von den Optimisten... und fuehlen sich genausowenig engagiert... Waehrend ihr Pessimismus weitgehend die Funktion erfuellt, durch den Gedanken, dass man nichts machen kann, vor der inneren Forderung zu schuetzen, etwas zu unternehmen, verteidigen sich die Optimisten gegen die gleiche innere Forderung, indem sie sich einreden, alles gehe schon seinen rechten Weg, so dass man nichts zu machen braucht. -- Erich Fromm, "Anatomie der menschlichen Destruktivitaet" 1973 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 530 10.9.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you. -- Mahabharata 5:1517 Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. -- Matthew 7:12 Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. -- Sunnah Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. -- Udana Varga 5:18 Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary. -- Talmud, Shabbat 31:a Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. -- Analects 15:23 Taoism: Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. -- T'ai Shag Kan Ying P'ien Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself. -- Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5 ALL THE REST IS COMMENTARY --robert wolff, www.wildwolff.com, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 531 10.9.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I've seen spirits, I've met angels, touched creations, beautiful and wondrous I've been places where I question all I think I know I believe, I believe, I believe is good for you to go. ... The world is our temple, the world is our church, heaven's here on Earth. If we ... ... this could be heaven here on Earth. -- Tracy Chapman "New Beginning" (1995) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 532 13.08.009 aus'm KonstNixLaden beam.to/KostNix ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. Evil is essentially stupid. -- R. A. Heinlein (1907-1988), "Gulf" (1949) in "Assignment for Eternity" (1953) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 533 ------------------------------------------------------------------ GIER ZU KULTIVIEREN IST GEMEINGEFAEHRLICH. [ Cultivating greed is a threat to public safety. ] -- Axel Koehler-Schnura (Vorstand der CBG, www.cbgnetwork.org ) in der Hauptversammlung der BAYER-AG, 2009 -- -- laut SBW (Stichwort Bayer) Nr. 2/2009 (27.Jahrgang) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 534 19.08.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ GOD CAN ONLY WORK THROUGH OUR HANDS. -- Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food 5. 6. 2007, at the opening of the Alternative Summit in Rostock -- -- quoted in www.Momentaufnahme.at (AT, 2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 535 21.8.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLIDARITY / SOLIDARITAET Solidaritaet (abgeleitet vom lateinischen solidus fuer gediegen, echt oder fest; Adjektiv: solidarisch) bezeichnet eine, zumeist in einem ethisch-politischen Zusammenhang benannte Haltung der Verbundenheit mit - und Unterstuetzung von - Ideen, Aktivitaeten und Zielen anderer. Sie drueckt ferner den Zusammenhalt zwischen gleichgesinnten oder gleichgestellten Individuen und Gruppen und den Einsatz fuer gemeinsame Werte aus. -- de.Wikipedia Solidarity - unity of interests, sympathies, etc., as among members of the same class. -- 1994 Collins eine von Ausrottung bedrohte Verhaltensweise, deren Foerderung und aus-Uebung ich gerade deshalb fuer besonders wichtig halte. --wda ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 536 29.8.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) -- -- quoted in Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 537 04.09.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -- Sri Chinmoy Ghose -- -- quoted in Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 538 04.09.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ In an individual selfishness uglyfies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. -- David Mitchell, CLOUD ATLAS, © 2004 -- -- quoted by robert wolff, http://www.wildwolff.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 539 from rwolff's longing... ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Christian religion is a parody of the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun. -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- -- quoted in Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 540 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Christianity, along with all other theistic belief systems, is the fraud of the age. It serves to detach the species from the natural world, and likewise, each other. It supports blind submission to authority. -- Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 541 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... to understand is to transform what is. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) -- -- archive footage in ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) full quote: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/quotes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 542 ------------------------------------------------------------------ My country is the world... and my religion is to do good. -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- -- quoted in Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 543 ------------------------------------------------------------------ War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It's going to take the redesign of our culture and values. -- Jacque Fresco in ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 544 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Corruption is not some by-product of monetary-ism, it is it's very foundation. ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 545 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The world is being taken over by a hand-ful of business powers who dominate the natural resources we need to live, while controlling the money we need to obtain these resources. The end result will be world monopoly based not on human life but financial and corporate power. ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 546 09.09.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Niemand ist hoffnungsloser versklavt, als jene, die glauben frei zu sein None are more hopelessly enslaved that those who falsly believe they are free. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Wahlverwandschaften (Elective Affinities) 1809, II.5 -- -- zit. in ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 547 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Menschheitsgeschichte wird mehr und mehr zu einem Rennen zwischen Aufklaerung und Katastrophe. H. G. Wells (1866-1949) Bomben gegen Terror... ...ist wie ficken fuer die Jungfraeulichkeit. www.solid-bw.de Nur tote Fische schwimmen mit dem Strom… geklaut von http://upstar.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/zitate-spruche-die-ich-mag ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 548 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Do not hate your oppressors. They need to be liberated just as you do. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) -- -- quoted in ZEITGEIST: Activist Orientation Guide http://www.flexform.de/ptupoeei ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 549 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ihr gebt nur wenig, wenn ihr von eurer Habe gebt. Wahrhaftig gebt ihr erst, wenn ihr von euch gebt. Denn was ist eure Habe anderes als Dinge, die ihr aus Furcht, ihr koenntet sie morgen benoetigen, aufbewahrt und bewacht? -- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) "Der Prophet" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 550 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The end of the Earth is not near, but the days of those who would trample upon and mock the Sacred Earth are surely numbered. --Rabbi Matthew S. Kent, President of the Peyote Way Church of God http://www.peyoteway.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 551 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Being wrong is erroneously associated with failure, when, in fact, to be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it elevates someone to a new level of understanding. ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 552 13.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Physical slavery requires people to be housed and fed. Economic slavery requires people to feed and house themselves. ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 553 13.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I refuse to live in a country like this, and I'm not leaving. -- Michael Moore in "Capitalism: A Love Story" (2009) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232207/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 554 14.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) -- -- quoted in ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 555 23.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You must keep the Koan between your teeth even if you fall into a furnace. The one who has decided to solve the Koan must go to the end. When you reach Enlightenment you will find freedom like the breeze on the mountaintop and a peace unshakable like a rock in a storm. The Place where you stood today can be the Land of Perfect Bliss itself. -- "Hyegok (the old monk)" in WARUM BODHIDHARMA ... Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun (1989) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097195/quotes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 556 23.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ When it comes to bullshit, big-time major-league Bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: - Religion. Think about it! Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'till the end of time! - - But He *loves* you. -- George Carlin (1937 - 2008) in Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 557 556 23.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Gewalt ist niemals eine Antwort oder eine Loesung. Wer glaubt, unbedingt Pflastersteine schmeissen zu muessen, sollte sich ein Ziel waehlen, dessen Zerstoerung garantiert einen langfristigen Erfolg und persoenlichen Entwicklungsschub garantiert. Und das ist nicht der Helm eines Jungbullen oder die Fensterscheibe einer Bank, sondern die Bildroehre des eigenen Fernsehers. -- M. A. Verick in " DAS MEDIEN MONOPOL - Gedankenkontrolle und Manipulationen " http://expliki.org/w/images/c/c5/Das-Medienmonopol.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 558 28.11. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die gefaehrlichsten Massenvernichtungswaffen sind die Massenmedien. Denn sie zerstoeren den Geist, die Kreativität und den Mut der Menschen, und ersetzen diese mit Angst, Misstrauen, Schuld und Selbstzweifel. -- M. A. Verick in " DAS MEDIEN MONOPOL - Gedankenkontrolle und Manipulationen " http://expliki.org/w/images/c/c5/Das-Medienmonopol.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 559 29.11. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Who's ruling the world? This is, of course, the oligarchy of the international financial capital. A child that dies of starvation today is being murdered. There is no reason for dying. It is the world order that kills. -- Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food in "Der Geist des Geldes" (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233200 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 560 13.12. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Gut, dass die Amerikaner unser Banken- und Waehrungssystem nicht verstehen; denn verstuenden sie es, dann haetten wir wohl eine Revolution, noch bevor der morgige Tag anbricht. -- Henry Ford (1863-1947), US-Autobauer $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Wenn das amerikanische Volk jemals privaten Banken die Kontrolle ueber das Ausstellen des Geldes gibt, werden die Banken und Unternehmen, die um sie herum wachsen, erst durch Inflation und dann durch Deflation, die Leute all ihres Besitzes berauben, bis ihre Kinder obdachlos erwachen auf dem Kontinent, den ihre Vaeter eroberten. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Gruendungsvater $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ geklont von: http://zeitgeist.ask-gaia.org/user/115 (009/12/13) %%% 561 13.12. ------------------------------------------------------------------ In Zeiten universeller Taeuschung ist das Aussprechen von Wahrheit ein revolutionaerer Akt. In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell (1903-1950) -- -- quoted in Aaron Russo's "America: Freedom To Fascism" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772153 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 562 25.12. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The bankers own Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear,for this would be a happier and better world to life in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money. -- Sir Josiah Stamp (1880-1941) director of the Bank of England -- -- quoted in Aaron Russo's "America: Freedom To Fascism" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772153 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 563 ------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT WE DO FOR OURSELVES DIES WITH US. WHAT WE DO FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS IMMORTAL. -- Albert Pine (+1851) -- -- quoted on http://zday2010.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 564 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If we're ever to find a way out of this mess, we have to start by telling each other the truth. -- The March (1999), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165382/ --- http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=866A737D87E1D816 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 565 27.12.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If God were alive today, he would be an atheist. -- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) IMAGINE a World without religion ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzbb4Bm_doI ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 566 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Todo lo que nos rodea es falso e irreal. Es falsa la historia que nos ensenjaron, Falsas las creencias economicas con que nos imbuyeron, Falsas las perspectivas mundiales que nos presentan, y las disyuntivas politicas que nos ofrecen. Irreales las libertades que los textos aseguran (...) VOLVER A LA REALIDAD ES EL IMPERATIVO INEXCUSABLE. -- Raul Scalabrini Ortiz (1898–1959) 1940 Argentine writer, journalist, essayist, and poet -- -- quoted in ZEITGEIST ARGENTUM Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcmQiU9muSQ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 567 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We are all one people, a collective consciousness that is beginning to wake up from its long slumber. Let us help awaken this sleeping Giant ! -- www.thezeitgeistmovement.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 568 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -- Geshe Tenzin Gyatso (*1935), XIV. DALAI LAMA ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 569 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 570 ------------------------------------------------------------------ When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) who launched his non-violent resistance movement on 9/11 1906 -- -- quoted by Dr. Steven Jones in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8eYPZfEqzQ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 571 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Truth only hurts when it should. -- Paul Chafe (in "Destiny's Forge", 2007) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 572 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Francois-Marie Arouet 'Voltaire' (1694-1778) Questions sur les miracles (1765) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 573 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Psychoanalyse ~~ ~ Methode der Aufdeckung und des Kaempfens gegen den Widerstand ~ .. zur Foerderung seelischen Wachstums und der Selbstentfaltung Wer Anstrengung fuerchtet, ja sogar wer Frustration oder Leiden fuerchtet, der wird nie etwas erreichen... -- Erich Fromm (1900-1980) in "Psychologie fuer Nicht-Psychologen" (Vortrag am 1. 11. 1973) http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=372982B21B9B8864 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 574 16.03.2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Some men see things as they are and ask 'Why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'Why not?' --Robert F. Kennedy; South Africa, 1968 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 575 ------------------------------------------------------------------ " DEATH WILL HAVE NO STING " -- Schaeffer Cox (5:20...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guPm6-ueKjY ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 576 25.3.2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppression and resistance. -- Robert F. Kennedy; South Africa, 1966 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 577 ------------------------------------------------------------------ NECK DEEP IN DENIAL We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), The Sun, March 2004, 48 -- quoted by Derrick Jensen in "ENDGAME Vol.I: The Problem of Civilization" (2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 578 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Virgin places don't mean a thing to people who never bring their hearts along. -- Buffy St. Marie "Coincidence and Likely Stories - Disinformation" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 579 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Scientists say that hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe. They are wrong. There is far more stupidity than hydrogen. -- Frank Zappa (1940 – 1993) There are only two things in the Universe that are infinite: Space and human stupidity. And I'm not certain about the former. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 580 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 581 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. -- Chief 'Seattle' Si'ahl (1780 - 1866) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 582 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -- Epicurus ( Samos, 341 BC – Athens, 270 BC ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 583 05.07.010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Believe those who are seeking truth. Doubt those who find it. -- Andre Gide (1869 – 1951) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 584 09.07.010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We are one with God in birth and death. -- Anonymous14, quoted by Paul Chafe in "Genesis" (2007) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 585 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 586 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 587 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 588 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 589 PRACTISE ======== random acts of kindness and acts of senseless beauty ! 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