Quotes

[UnderAlienControl]

 

[Red Sky at Morning]

 

[UnderAlienControl]

 

[Frank Badfinger]

Discussing drug use.

George Harrison - You only have to do acid once.

Interviewer - You've only done acid once?

George Harrison - No, I've done acid lots of times, but you only have to do it once.

 

[Red Sky at Morning]

 

[Orwell's mentor]

 

[apricity]

“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” Martin Luther King

 

[Mini Contini]

"When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near." - Will Durant

 

[Lil axe]

a slave asks if it is legal, a free person asks if it is right

 

[Awoken2]

If you're depressed, you're living in the past. If you're anxious, you're living in the future. If you're at peace, you're living in the present.

Lao tzu

 

[Orwell's mentor]

"Flexibility is the cornerstone of progress. Progress is impossible without change. Those who cannot change their minds will never be able to change anything."

- Anonymous

 

[Lil axe]

do not walk in front of me, for i shall not follow
do not walk behind me, for i shall not lead
walk beside me and we will walk through life as friends

a quote i heard when i was just a young hatchet

 

[DesertRose]

'Make peace with imperfection.'
Richard Carlson, P.h.D

 

[Red Sky at Morning]

 

[Mini Contini]

 

[JoChris]

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.”
― Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason

 

[DesertRose]

"Every effort made to restore art, thought, and literature to a high and principled standard, calling people to God and not to the lower self;
every effort made to challenge the inequitable and self-destructive economics of the age and to replace them with a system in which the profit motive is subordinate to principles of justice and fraternity;
every effort made to topple autocracies and to broaden mass participation in decision-making;
every effort made towards reuniting the Muslim world and restoring the principle of brotherhood and honourable cooperation among peoples:
all these efforts will represent steps towards the liberation of Palestine."
Rachid Al-Ghannouchi ​

 

[UnderAlienControl]

"I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own." ~ Nikola Tesla

 

[DesertRose]

 

[Orwell's mentor]

Referencing the "What is Science" video in @polymoog's post:

“People talk glibbery about science, what is science? People are coming out of the university with their masters degree, or a Phd and you take them into the field and they literally don’t believe anything unless it’s a peer reviewed paper. It’s the only thing they accept. And you say to them, “But, let’s observe, let’s think, let’s discuss”, they don’t do it. Only when it’s in a peer-reviewed paper or not, that’s their view of science. I think it’s pathetic.

Gone into universities as bright, young people and they come out of them brain-dead. Not even knowing what science means. They think it means peer reviewed papers, etc. No, that’s academia, and if a paper is peer-reviewed, it means everybody thought the same. Therefore, they approved it. An unintended consequence is when new knowledge emerges, new scientific insights, they can never, ever be peer-reviewed. So we’re blocking all new advances in science that are big advances. If you look at the breakthroughs in science, almost always they don’t come from the centre of that profession, they come from the fringe. The finest candle makers in the world couldn’t even think of electric lights. They don’t come from within, they often come from outside the bricks. We’re going to kill ourselves because of stupidity. “

- Alan Savory, Ecologist