no but they can drop bombs on you while you hide in the basement till yer dead .....thats what fd roosvelt had curtis lemay do in dresden .that was for the first quote . i dont have one today yet
Old Rule, the Simple Plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can Wordsworth Schweitzer “The child of nature becomes a ready worker only so far as he ceases to be free and become unfree The citizens of westernized states passed this particular point long ago. The rulers of civilized modern countries have increasingly realized that they cannot “do good” to their subjects and allow them to be free at the same time The administrators of the welfare state in Britain for example, have seen that they cannot look after a man and simultaneously let him wander around loose. It is too untidy. C.S. Lewis The loftier the pretensions of power, the more meddlesome, inhuman and oppressive it will be. Thus the Renaissance doctrine of Divine Right is for me a corruption of monarchy; Rousseau’s General Will of democracy; radical mysticisms, of nationalism. All political power is at best a necessary evil: but it is least evil when its sanctions are most modest and commonplace, when it claims no more than to be useful or convenient and set itself strictly limited objectives. Anything transcendental or spiritual, or even anything very strongly ethical, in its pretensions is dangerous and encourages it to meddle in our private lives, Let the shoemaker stick to his last. ALL OF ABOVE FROM The Land God made in anger by Jon-Manchip White
heres another one for today: People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway. - unknown
another good one i have a million of em A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. - Opening scene of "Faust"
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857
The English novelist Kingsley Amis once observed that much of what was wrong with the 20th century could be summed up in the word "workshop." Nowadays, "workshop" has been largely replaced by the word "studies." Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Afro-American Studies, Women's Studies, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies: These are not the names of academic disciplines but political grievances. They exist not to further liberal education but to nurture the feckless antinomianism that Jacques Barzun dubbed "directionless quibble."
