Thoughts To Ponder - Page 4

aspundir · 29-03-2013, 06:44 PM

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers": Jose Narosky

aspundir · 29-03-2013, 06:48 PM

"If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks": Frederick The Great

aspundir · 31-03-2013, 08:03 PM

"That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; that until there is no longer any first-class and second-class citizens of any nation; that until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; that until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all, without regard to race -- until that day, the dreams of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained": Speech by - H.I.M. HAILE SELASSIE I - California 28th February 1968

aspundir · 31-03-2013, 08:03 PM

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us": - Thich Nhat Hanh, Contemporary Vietnamese

aspundir · 31-03-2013, 08:03 PM

"The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on [them]": - James W. Fulbright: US senator who initiated the international exchange program for scholars, 1905-1995

aspundir · 31-03-2013, 08:04 PM

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth": - Adolf Hitler

aspundir · 03-04-2013, 07:59 PM

"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear" -
Bertrand Russell: English logician and philosopher 1872-1970

aspundir · 03-04-2013, 07:59 PM

'Fear always springs from ignorance" - Ralph Waldo Emerson - American lecturer, poet, and essayist, 1803-1882

aspundir · 03-04-2013, 07:59 PM

"Fear follows crime, and is its punishment" - Voltaire : French writers and philosophers, 1694-1778

aspundir · 05-04-2013, 11:17 PM

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

"Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions..." : Gore Vidal

29-03-2013, 06:44 PM	#31
aspundir VIP Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: churu Posts: 122,463 Rep Power: 245	Re: Thoughts To Ponder "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers": Jose Narosky

29-03-2013, 06:48 PM	#32
aspundir VIP Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: churu Posts: 122,463 Rep Power: 245	Re: Thoughts To Ponder "If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks": Frederick The Great

31-03-2013, 08:03 PM	#33
aspundir VIP Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: churu Posts: 122,463 Rep Power: 245	Re: Thoughts To Ponder "That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; that until there is no longer any first-class and second-class citizens of any nation; that until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; that until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all, without regard to race -- until that day, the dreams of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained": Speech by - H.I.M. HAILE SELASSIE I - California 28th February 1968

31-03-2013, 08:03 PM	#34
aspundir VIP Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: churu Posts: 122,463 Rep Power: 245	Re: Thoughts To Ponder "In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us": - Thich Nhat Hanh, Contemporary Vietnamese

31-03-2013, 08:03 PM	#35
aspundir VIP Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: churu Posts: 122,463 Rep Power: 245	Re: Thoughts To Ponder "The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on [them]": - James W. Fulbright: US senator who initiated the international exchange program for scholars, 1905-1995

31-03-2013, 08:04 PM	#36
aspundir VIP Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: churu Posts: 122,463 Rep Power: 245	Re: Thoughts To Ponder "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth": - Adolf Hitler

03-04-2013, 07:59 PM	#37
aspundir VIP Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: churu Posts: 122,463 Rep Power: 245	Re: Thoughts To Ponder "Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear" - Bertrand Russell: English logician and philosopher 1872-1970

03-04-2013, 07:59 PM	#38
aspundir VIP Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: churu Posts: 122,463 Rep Power: 245	Re: Thoughts To Ponder 'Fear always springs from ignorance" - Ralph Waldo Emerson* - American lecturer, poet, and essayist, 1803-1882*

03-04-2013, 07:59 PM	#39
aspundir VIP Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: churu Posts: 122,463 Rep Power: 245	Re: Thoughts To Ponder "Fear follows crime, and is its punishment" - Voltaire* : French writers and philosophers, 1694-1778*

05-04-2013, 11:17 PM	#40
aspundir VIP Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: churu Posts: 122,463 Rep Power: 245	Re: Thoughts To Ponder "The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. "Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions..." : Gore Vidal