A nation run by bankers will never be out of debt.
A nation owned by weapons manufacturers will never know
peace.
A nation that allows a small segment of its citizens to
write the laws will never know justice.
And if these elements own the media, then we will never know
the truth.
Knowledge is knowing.
Wisdom is knowing you do not know.
When we can no longer find anything to believe in, that is
when it is up to us to become something to believe in.
Writing, as I suppose other forms of creative activity, is
both hard work and the ultimate form of relaxation.
The rules of finance were written by rich people looking to
get richer. That part about the “magic” of the market place was thrown in to
make the workers feel better. You think they wrote the laws because they were
selfless? You think it was to benefit you?
If you have a sufficient desire to do something you will not
only find a rationalization for doing it, you will find a moral imperative for
why it must be done.
Every man is a heretic to another. No two think exactly
alike. What people mistake for exact same thought is in fact not thinking at
all.
The problem with government is that it inevitably leads to a
bureaucratic nightmare. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to spend the next eight
hours on the phone with my insurance company.
There are always those who urge war and revolution as a way
to rid the world of evil. If violence purged sin our world would be a Paradise.
We are not raising children to be free but to conform. When
they are told rather than asked they are taught to obey rather than question.
What kind of freedom can come from such teaching?
Most of the world’s problems begin when people decide that
if some is good then more is better.
Imagine if all the discontent people felt was channeled towards
changing our society instead of being quieted by prescription drugs.
The difference between a scientist and public relations
expert is that a scientist does not answer when he is uncertain and a public
relations expert is never uncertain.
There is nearly always an economic excuse for not doing the
right thing.
The trouble with technology is that it is in the hands of
people.
It’s not like there is anything new to say. We merely have
to repeat the words of a play performed a thousand times before until we
deliver the perfect performance.
Always try to see yourself in another person, even if to do
so means you must see yourself as an idiot. It’s hard, but it’s never too far
from the truth.
When yes and no are no longer sufficient answers, wisdom
begins. Spirituality, too.
God is life, everything is alive, and love is the awareness
of this.
How could a species smart enough to build atomic weapons be
stupid enough to build atomic weapons?
Science is the process of disproving false gods. So is
religion.
Reality is altered by belief just as it is maintained by
disbelief.
The trick is to be tough and independent without becoming cruel
and indifferent.
Our children’s minds are in the hands of corporations as
firmly as German children’s minds were once in the hands of Nazis.
No one is so foolishly optimistic as they are when buying a
lottery ticket or voting for a political candidate.
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