------------------------------------------------------------------ Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases (which) we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution, but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and the education of the billions who are its victims. " -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) -- both quoted by Prof. Albert A. Bartlett in his presentation on "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoiiVnQadwE .. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 601 from www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wx7px3k_Gk ; wiki ------------------------------------------------------------------ They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one. They promised to take our land, and they took it. -- Mahpiya Luta, Red Cloud (1822-1909) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 602 600 .... 12.02.2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wenn du das Heilige liebst und das Gewoehnliche verachtest, duempelst du immer noch auf dem Meer der Verblendung. -- Linji Yixuan, Lin-chi I-hsuean, Jap.: Rinzai Gigen) (+866) Wer in weltlichen Angelegenheiten ein Hindernis fuer seine UEbung sieht, weiss nur, dass es keinen Weg in weltlichen Dingen gibt, waehrend sier zugleich verkennt, dass es so etwas wie weltliche Dinge, die vom Weg unterschieden werden koennten, nicht gibt. Zenmeister Dogen (1200-1253): Shobogenzo ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 603 05/011 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The only way of achieving Sustainability would be to transform the very idea and institution of money itself. -- Prof. Alf Hornborg (quoted in ADBUSTERs #95, may 2011) Corruption is not some by-product of monetary-ism, it is it's very foundation. ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 604 ------------------------------------------------------------------ People who are violent to animals rarely stop there. As long as men massacre animals they will kill each other, indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. -- Pythagoras (~570-495 BC) Solange es Schlachthaeuser gibt, wird es Schlachtfelder geben. As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be slaughter- fields (aka. "battle-fields"). -- Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 605 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sometimes I wonder whether the World is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Langborne Clemens, 1835-1910) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 606 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wer nur Zeitungen liest, sieht die Dinge wie ein Kurzsichtiger ohne Augenglaeser. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 607 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Governments around the world no longer represent the interests of the people but are now in thrall to a powerful group of energy companies and the ideology of growth fetishism they embody. -- Clive Hamilton in "Requiem for a Species" 2010 -- -- quoted in (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org) #? ?Nov. 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 608 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Es gibt Menschen mit der verworrenen Vorstellung, die hoechste Vollendung bestehe im ruhigen Dasitzen mit voellig entleerten Geist, wobei kein einziger Gedanke erlaubt ist. Das wirkliche Nicht-Denken besteht darin, an alle Dinge zu denken, ohne sich von ihnen infizieren zu lassen. -- Hui-neng (638-713) Pinyin: Dajian Huineng, Jap.: Daikan Eno, Korean: Hyeneung the 6th and Last Patriarch of Chan Buddhism ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 609 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to assure the unhindered development of the individual. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 610 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction... The chain reaction of evil --hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 611 ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMAGINE ..... a world without cages. (a) IMAGINE ..... a world without locks or keys. (b) -- (a) inspired by R.J.Sawyer's "Illegal Alien" (1998) -- (b) inspired by TAHCA USHTE aka. Lame Deer (+1971) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 612 ------------------------------------------------------------------ It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. -- Albert Einstein, 1946 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 613 ------------------------------------------------------------------ People who are violent to animals rarely stop there. Fur coates are worn by beautiful animals, and ugly, deranged people. Only animals and sluts wear fur. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 614 ------------------------------------------------------------------ A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. -- Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 615 von kenny (muggrat) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss or tranquility, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes. -- Choegyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 616 from rwolff's 07/011 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can't have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man's worth couldn't be measured by it. We had no written law, no attorneys or politicians, therefore we couldn't cheat. -- TAHCA USHTE, Lame Deer (+1971) in -- -- "Seeker of Visions" (1972) by Richard Erdoes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 617 from rwolff's 07/011 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. -- Pissarro ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 618 from utu maple1255 's ------------------------------------------------------------------ V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Who looks inside, awakens. -- C. G. Jung (1875-1961) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 619 from utu maple1255 's ------------------------------------------------------------------ No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves. -- Ojibway saying ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 620 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The natural consequence of carrying capacity overload is population crash. -- William R. Catton Jr. -- -- quoted by Derrick Jensen in "Dreams" (2011) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 621 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle. For the first time in history the physical survival of the human race depends on a radical change of the human heart. However, a change in the human heart is possible only to the extent that drastic economic and social changes occur... -- Erich Fromm in " To Have or To Be ? - A new blueprint for mankind " 1976 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 622 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. -- Marty Feldman (1934-1982) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 623 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. -- Howard Zinn (1922-2010) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 624 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Lord is not my Shepherd - for I am not a sheep. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 625 10/011 from c2.David_B's ------------------------------------------------------------------ The most moral question you can ask is: IS the world (the *physical* world) a better place because you were born, because of your actions ? -- DJ in "Derrick Jensen Speaks with Ecolutionist -- -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikcyn5DcRLc The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well [which is also what tends to give real happiness --wda] -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 626 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 627 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man muss das Wahre immer wiederholen, weil auch der Irrtum um uns immer wieder gepredigt wird und zwar nicht von einzelnen, sondern von der Masse, in Zeitungen und Enzyklopaedien, auf Schulen und Universitaeten. UEberall ist der Irrtum obenauf, und es ist ihm wohl und behaglich im Gefuehl der Majoritaet, die auf seiner Seite ist. - Goethe zu Johann Peter Eckermann, 16. Dezember 1828 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 628 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 629 ------------------------------------------------------------------ " The truth is extreme. To make it moderate is to lie. " -- Recipe for a Revolution (A Sobering Warning) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zav_wgk_W4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 630 ------------------------------------------------------------------ No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies. Salvador de Madariaga - (1886-1978 ), Spanish writer, diplomat, and historian, noted for his service at the League of Nations ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 631 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is NO God higher than Truth. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 632 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. -- Alexander Hamilton (~1755-1804) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 633 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Activism is my rent for living on the planet. -- Alice Walker (*1944) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 634 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start toopen windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 635 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The (XIV.) Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered: "Man. Because he sacrifices health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived." ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 636 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 637 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 638 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 639 PRACTISE ======== random acts of kindness and acts of senseless beauty ! McCopies & D.Stribute 2137 !