“The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.” – Federico Garcia Lorca – Spanish Poet and Playwright
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. –Thoreau
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. –Mark Twain
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. –Pliny the Younger
Much of our activity these days is nothing more than a cheap anesthetic to deaden the pain of an empty life.–Unknown
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. –Albert Einstein
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. –Jesus
Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought of as poor.—Robert Mallett
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. –Morrie Schwartz
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.” – Joseph Conrad
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” Aldous Huxley
ron says:
I wish i could remember his name.An wise indian has a nice piece about how we all live on a federal reservation.He welcomed all of us to the res. Admin,you should find this n repost it.
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3rd March 2012 at 11:19 am
AKAnon says:
Ron-I spent a couple hours meeting with folks from BLM yesterday-you probably don’t know how literally correct you are, at least in the western states. Figuratively, your Indian friend is correct everywhere.
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3rd March 2012 at 3:39 pm