Quotes
On Financial, Banking, and Economics (Part 1)
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that…
Single One Off Quotes
On Honor, being Honourable “May I remind the Nobel laureates who have signed this appeal of one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s main reasons for voluntarily declining the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964: ‘It is not the same thing if I…
On Pain
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” ——Mother Theresa “The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.” ——Jennifer Aniston “Love…
On The Golden Rule
The Golden Rule of Major World Religions 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…
Encouraging Encouragement (Part 2)
“Instead of giving myself reasons why I can’t,I give myself reasons why I can.” ——Author Unknown “When one door closes another door opens;but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,that we do not see…
Encouraging Encouragement (Part 1)
“With God, all things are POSSIBLE.” ——The Bible, Mark 12:30-31 “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee…
Barack Obama: On Hell
Excerpt from Barack Obama: The 2004 “God Factor” Interview Transcript: OBAMA: …This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at…
On Spirituality
“Spirituality is man’s relationship with the Divine. Religion is crowd control.” ——Author Unknown “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” ——Anais Nin “People living deeply have no fear of death.” ——Anais Nin “Sometimes people get the…
On Joy and Happiness (Part 3)
“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.” ——Joseph Joubert “Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” ——Colette “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” ——Anton Chekhov “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is…
On Joy and Happiness (Part 2)
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” ——Author Unknown “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ——Robert Heinlein “We tend…
Jimmy Carter: On Israel
Jimmy Carter: Israel Treats Palestinians Like Animals Tuesday, June 16, 2009 GAZA CITY — Former President Jimmy Carter denounced the deprivations facing Palestinians in Gaza as unique in history, asserting that they are being treated “like animals.” “Tragically, the international community too often ignores the cries…
On Ethics and Morality
“Further generations will find nothing ‘ethical’ about twentieth and twenty-first century Judeo-Christian ethics; they will find the morality in this system equivalent to that of Christianity in the Dark Ages, ever dark indeed!” ——Gary Amirault “If we understand the mechanisms…
The Bible (Part 2)
…A dialogue between Bible-lovers, Bible-haters, and everyone in-between… “It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.” ——Horace Greeley “When the missionaries came to Africa they had…
The Bible (Part 1)
…A dialogue between Bible-lovers, Bible-haters, and everyone in-between… “I am a creature of a day. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God. I want to know one thing: the way to heaven. God himself has condescended…
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