Agree with me. Disagree with me. Abuse me. Challenge me. Seduce me. Provoke me.....

...but only with a recognised quote.

Lets talk to each other with 'quotes only'!

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independnece. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln

"American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force - without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It's harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other."
-- Philip Agee, CIA Diary, p597

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle.
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

“Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says:

No man should have so much.

The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says:

All men should have as much.”

~ Phelps Adams.

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity”

Never a truer quote. By Andre Gide.

"Defending the pillars of Saddam's power until the end, embracing the evil that their hatred of America makes them love."

"Man acquires at birth, through heredity, a biological constitution which we must consider fixed and unalterable, including the natural urges which are characteristic of the human species. In addition, during his lifetime, he acquires a cultural constitution which he adopts from society through communication and through many other types of influences. It is this cultural constitution which, with the passage of time, is subject to change and which determines to a very large extent the relationship between the individual and society. Modern anthropology has taught us, through comparative investigation of so-called primitive cultures, that the social behavior of human beings may differ greatly, depending upon prevailing cultural patterns and the types of organization which predominate in society. It is on this that those who are striving to improve the lot of man may ground their hopes: human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate."

- Albert Einstein, Why Socialism? Monthly Review, 1949

John Stuart Mill:

"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

And it's the better men of this world who are willing to fight, and die, to preserve your right to do nothing to fight evil, and do everything to further unjust war, you miserable creature.

"Defending the pillars of Saddam's power until the end, embracing the evil that their hatred of America makes them love."

Just read this quote this morning.......

I really must add one more comment about the emptiness of sheer intellectualism. If intellectualism were the major key to purpose and fulfillment, our campuses would be 'Camelots' of peace. People would gravitate to those campuses, finding there the fulfillment of their dreams.

~ Charles Swindoll, Living on the Edge (commentary of Ecclesiastes)

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The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. ~ Leslie Weatherhead
Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy--fully armed too, as it's a highly dangerous quest. ~ Flannery O'Connor

This has been stuck in my head all day...
"To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West: Know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."
~Obama's inaugural speech as 44th president of America.
Jan 20, 2009.

(Bush need to think on this " Know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy")
Yes, he destroy US economy and Infrastructure of Iraq.

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Brevity is the soul of wit.
~William Shakespeare

"He that layeth up treasure for himself is not rich toward God."
Jesus in the New Testament Gospel of Luke.

Get Curious!

"The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's Side. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side."
Jesus in the New Testament Gospel of Luke

Get Curious!

Proverbs 21:13; “If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor,
he too will cry out and not be answered.”

Proverbs 11:4; “Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.”

Get Curious!

quote:

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Originally posted by Asa:
"He that layeth up treasure for himself is not rich toward God."
Jesus in the New Testament Gospel of Luke.

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Luke 12:21. context: Luke traces Jesus' Perean (Transjordan) ministry. chaps. 9-23 cover last six months of Jesus' life.

quote:

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"The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's Side. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side."
Jesus in the New Testament Gospel of Luke

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Luke 16:22-23. context: Luke traces Jesus' Perean (Transjordan) ministry. chaps. 9-23 cover last six months of Jesus' life.

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and agape-love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. [lit. 'Mammon' Aramaic for that which nourishes, supports; physical material wealth; riches one trusts in]

~Yeshua, Matthew 6:24, context: Yeshua is specifically instructing his talmidim on an unnamed mountain with crowds from Galil, Judea, and Transjordan gathered to hear him (4:25; 7:28) and marveling as they listened to him targum (commentate upon the spirit vs. letter of observing Torah).

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The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. ~ Leslie Weatherhead
Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy--fully armed too, as it's a highly dangerous quest. ~ Flannery O'Connor

Get carried away, Asa? Talking to yourself were you? Answer myself with a quote?


"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"Defending the pillars of Saddam's power until the end, embracing the evil that their hatred of America makes them love."

"Man is the world of man — state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness."

- Karl Marx, Introduction, Contribution to Critique of Hegel's Philosphy of Right, 1843

Know FSM, no fear! No FSM, know fear!

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865

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The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. ~ Leslie Weatherhead
Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy--fully armed too, as it's a highly dangerous quest. ~ Flannery O'Connor

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”

- Stephen Henry Roberts, Historian

"He that layeth up treasure for himself is not rich toward God."

Asa: “Be selfish and don't factor others into the equation”

Ananya: "I don't believe in giving to charity"


Hey, I've answered for two people!

"Defending the pillars of Saddam's power until the end, embracing the evil that their hatred of America makes them love."

"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot."

~ George Orwell

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. . . . Power is not a means; it is an end . . . not power over things, but over men. . . . In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. . . . There will be no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. . . . Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
~ George Orwell

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers