------------------------------------------------------------------ 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) Source: On Life and Essays on Religion ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. -- Malcom X (1925–1965) ---- Wer nur Zeitungen liest, sieht die Dinge wie ein Kurzsichtiger ohne Augenglaeser. =~ Who reads only newspapers sees things like a myopic without glasses. -- 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 first duty of government is to protect the powerless against the powerful. -- The Code of Hamurabi, oldest legal code, ca. 1700 B.C. 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 coats 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. -- Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 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. [T]ruth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side. - 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 to open 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dieses taugleiche Leben kommt uns leicht abhanden, die Zeit vergeht wie im Flug. Verwickelt euch in eurem kurzen Leben nicht in andere Dinge, sondern widmet euch einfach dem Erlernen des Weges. -- Zenmeister Dogen (1200-1253) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 637 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Do you hate people?" "I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around." -- Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), Barfly --- "I don't hate humans, i hate what humans have become in their addiction to this technologized death-machine [aka. industrial 'civilization']" -- Derrick Jensen in "civilisation OR survival" http://tinyurl.com/DJ-survival ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 638 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The old Lakota were wise. They knew that human hearts away from nature become hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. -- Ota Kte aka. Mochunozhin or Luther Standing Bear (1868-1939) Anyone who has accostomed himself to regard the life of any creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of the worthlessness of human lives. -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 639 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. -- Plato (428-348 B.C.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 640 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. UEberzeugungen sind gefaehrlichere Feinde der Wahrheit als Luegen. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) I, Aph. 83 Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it. -- Edward Abbey (1927-1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 641 22.06.012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Humor und Tod ergeben eine gute Mischung. -- Soji Enku Humor and Death make a good blend. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 642 Zen-Wahrheit vom: 20.07.2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "What must I do to win salvation?" "Above all else, never lie to yourself." -- Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), 'The Brothers Karamazov' ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 643 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Auch wenn du heute lebst, geh nicht davon aus, dass du morgen leben wirst. -- Zenmeister Dogen (1200-1253) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 644 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others. -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 645 9.9.012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Actions speak louder than words. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 646 1.10.012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The distinction is not between violence and nonviolence. The distinction is between doing something and doing nothing, between fighting power and submitting to power. -- Lierre Keith in "Earth at Risk" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 647 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of humankind. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 648 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 649 21.10.2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I cannot solve planetary problems but cannot NOT observe the insanity of my kind. -- robert wolff in "REFLECTIONS ON LEARNED SKILLS" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 650 3.11.012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -- T.S. Eliot (1888- 1965) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 651 ------------------------------------------------------------------ What in America they call "SOCIALISM" --a word that means abhorrent-- to me is no "ism". It is what humans do. We have always known that we have TO TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER. We would not have survived for a hundred and more thousand years if we hadn’t taken care of each other. [my CAPS] -- robert wolff ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 652 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Although German Fascism has been defeated by military power, the fascistic human structure continues to thrive in Germany, Russia, America, everywhere. -- Wilhelm Reich, July 1944 ( see http://wda.tradivarium.at/wreich.rtf ) When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) 1935 East of the Atlantic, these days, it's adorning itself with stars. -- wda, ca. 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 653 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Trees are poems that Earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptyness. -- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. -- Sara Ebenreck ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 654 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Is ja nur ein bisschen Natur das taeglich zerstoert wird. Die Summe aller Bisschen ist bald das Ganze. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 It's only a little bit of Nature which is destroyed every day. But soon these small bit(e)s will add up to the whole of it. (my amateurish translation) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 655 ------------------------------------------------------------------ CONSUMPTION IS A TREATABLE DISEASE -- Tibor Kalman (1949-1999) -- -- quoted in ADBUSTERs No. 26 (Jul/Aug 1999) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 656 ------------------------------------------------------------------ All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed, the trees towering and the walls built low. And in the valley, people as strong and varied as the land. The houses welcoming all who knock and a sense of boundless offering in all relations and in you and me. No yearning for an afterlife, no looking beyond, no belittling of death, but only longing for what belongs to us and serving earth, lest we remain unused. -- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) The Book of Hours II,25 translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 657 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a persistent mental crouch. -- Robert Anton Wilson, "Prometheus Rising" (1983) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 658 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You were much safer falling into the hands of the Cynics. The Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. The Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. -- Robert Anton Wilson, "Schroedinger's Cat" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 659 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way. -- Malcolm Glaswell "BLINK - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 660 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The ideal condition would be, I admit, That man should be right by instinct; But since we are all too likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC), Antigone translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 661 29.1.2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. -- E. B. White (1899-1985) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 662 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 663 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something one 'falls into' if one is lucky? -- Erich Fromm "The Art of Loving" ISBN 978-006-112973-5 p.1 Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love. -- ibid p.43 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 664 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow man, and from nature. -- Erich Fromm "The Art of Loving" ISBN 978-006-112973-5 p.79 The principle underlying capitalistic society and the principle of love are incompatible. -- ibid p.121 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 665 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ich habe dieses kleine Etwas weggeworfen, das man "Ich" nennt, und ich bin die unendliche Welt geworden. I threw away that tiny thing called 'me' and i became the great wide world. -- Soseki ( Muso Soseki; 1275-1351 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 666 26.2.013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [T]hose who rule the symbols, rule us. -- Alfred Korzybski, "Science and Sanity" (1933) p.76 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 667 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The view that all mental processes are necessarily physical processes [=~'Physicalism'] is a metaphysical assumption, not a scientific fact. -- Tenzin Gyatso (HH. XIV. Dalai Lama) "The Universe in a Single Atom" (2005) ISBN 076792066X, p.128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 668 03/013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A society, most of whose members spend a great deal of their time not on the spot, not here and now in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevenat other worlds of sport and soap-opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantacy [and recently playing with their i(diot)- gadgets], will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it. " --Aldous Huxley, foreword to the 1946 edition of 'Brave New World' ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 669 ------------------------------------------------------------------ seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here ~ E.E. Cummings ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 670 23.3.013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Und wenn sie uns alle mit in den Strudel reissen? Dann will ich zugrundegehen im Bewusstsein: Ich habe mein Leben gelebt, ich habe es nicht den Idioten und Kriminellen ueberlassen. Ich habe mich gewehrt bis zuletzt. -- Hans A. Pestalozzi "Auf die Baeume ihr Affen" [Up into the Trees You Apes]" (1989) ISBN 3729603132 S.346 And what if they take us all down with them? Then I will perish in the awareness: I have lived my life, I did not surrender it to the idiots and criminals. I will know that i have fought them to my last breath. (my transl.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 671 ------------------------------------------------------------------ It is true I've always loved the daring ones Like the black young man Who tried to crash All barriers at once, wanted to swin At a white beach (in Alabama) Nude. -- Alice Walker (*1944) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 672 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. ... [I]f we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. -- Howard Zinn (1922-2010) in "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train - A Personal History of Our Times" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 673 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Church has said that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow upon the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. -- Ferdinand Magellan (1519-1522), whose expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 674 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Glaube nicht an die Macht von Traditionen, auch wenn sie ueber viele Generationen hinweg und an vielen Orten in Ehren gehalten wurden. Glaube an nichts, nur weil viele Leute davon sprechen. Glaube nicht an die Weisheiten aus alter Zeit. Glaube nicht, dass deine Vorstellungen dir von einem Gott eingegeben wurden. Glaube nichts, was nur auf der Autoritaet deiner Lehrer oder Priester beruht. Glaube das, was du durch Nachforschungen selbst geprueft und fuer richtig befunden hast und was gut ist fuer dich und fuer andere. -- Buddha Siddharta Gautama (563-483 BC), Kalama Sutra (aus dem Anguttara Nikaya III.65) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 675 ------------------------------------------------------------------ THE GRASS IS GREENER where you water it -- Neil Barringham ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 676 ------------------------------------------------------------------ An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 677 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served. -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 678 -- from DJ's anarchism_and_the_politics_of_violation ------------------------------------------------------------------ A person's heart away from Nature becomes hard ... Lack of respect for growing, living things soon leads to a lack of respect for humans too. -- Standing Bear, Ota Kte, Mochunozhin (1868-1939) Oglala chief ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 679 -- from c2: Lynn P.'s ------------------------------------------------------------------ Today we have a temporary aberration called 'industrial capitalism' which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital: the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. -- Amory Lovins (*1947) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 680 ------------------------------------------------------------------ As environmentalists all our defeats are permanent and our victories are temporary. -~ David Brower (1912-2000) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 681 from DJ orion/email 10.6.013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BEAUTY OF GENEROSITY It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome... Children must early learn the beauty of generosity They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving... Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have - to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return. -- Ohiye S’a Charles Alexander Eastman (Santee Dakota, 1858-1939) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 682 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live ... You are captives and you have made a captive of the world itself. -- Daniel Quinn (*1935) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 683 DJ politics of violation ------------------------------------------------------------------ DOING NOTHING IS OBEYING A DEADLY ORDER ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 684 http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/17008-three-things-young-people-should-know-to-save-the-world ------------------------------------------------------------------ Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent discussion is apt to become worse than useless. -- Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 685 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 686 DJ anarcho...violation ------------------------------------------------------------------ We, civilized people, think we're greatly superior. And yet, they, so-called primitive, live totally sustainably and they are joyful. We have neither. What we have is gadgets and worry. -- robert wolff (c) late june 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 687 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Warriors to us are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights. Warriors are ones who sacrifice themselves for the good of others. The warrior’s task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity. -- often (probably MIS-) attributed to Tatanka IYotaka (Sitting Bull) (ca. 1830-1890) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 688 DJ anarcho...violation ------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other. -- Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 689 c2 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Superstition brings bad luck. (my transl.) Aberglauben bringt Unglueck. -- Raymond Smullyan, 5000 B.C., 1.3.8 -- -- Umberto Eco "Il pendolo di Focault" (1988) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 690 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lass uns eine Welt ertraeumen, die den Krieg nicht kennt, wo man Menschen aller Laender seine Freunde nennt. Wo man alles Brot der Erde teilt mit jedem Kind, wo die letzten Diktatoren Zirkusreiter sind. Lass uns eine Welt ertraeumen, wo man singt und lacht, wo die Traurigkeit der andern selbst uns traurig macht. Wo man trotz der fremden Sprache sich so gut versteht, dass man alle schweren Wege miteinander geht. Lass uns eine Welt ertraeumen, wo man unentwegt Pflanzen, Tiere, Luft und Wasser wie einen Garten pflegt. Wo man um die ganze Erde Liebesbriefe schreibt und dann lass uns jetzt beginnen, dass es kein Traum bleibt. -- Gerhard Schoene (*1952) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 691 ------------------------------------------------------------------ When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear. When this happens the Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them. -- [paraphrasing] Chief 'Seattle' Si'ahl (1780 - 1866) Warriors know from birth that their life is a bulwark against injustice, that their life may end early, that their days are numbered and their honor will never allow them to shy away from duty. -~ DGR, http://www.deepgreenresistance.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 692 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Warriors know from birth that their life is a bulwark against injustice, that their life may end early, that their days are numbered and their honor will never allow them to shy away from duty. -~ DGR, http://www.deepgreenresistance.org Do not confuse 'duty' with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. -- Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 693 ------------------------------------------------------------------ language is a form of music Alle Wesen sind Blumen bluehend in einem bluehenden Universum. -- Nakagawa Soen (1907–1984) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 694 ------------------------------------------------------------------ A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. -- Jack London (1878-1916) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 695 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [G]ood intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. -- Albert Camus (1913-1960) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 696 27.7.013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. ~- William Blake (1757-1827) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 697 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. -- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 698 erowid exttracts #24 07/013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ZU RISIKEN UND NEBENWIRKUNGEN VON RECHTSPOPULISMUS LESEN SIE EIN GESCHICHTSBUCH ODER FRAGEN SIE IHRE GROSSELTERN! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 699 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Know that Death is your ally. Ana T. Forrest in "Fierce Medicine" (2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 700 09/013 Dr.A.B.