HIDDEN GEMS
“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.” Noam Chomsky
“Living with the daily ugliness of slum life, educational castration and economic exploitation, some ghetto dwellers now and then strike out in spasms of violence and self-defeating riots. A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. It is the desperate, suicidal cry of one who is so fed up with the powerlessness of his cave existence that he asserts that he would rather be dead than ignored.”
Martin Luther King Jr
In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world." Herbert Croly
"The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people." Carl Jung
If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated. Ayn Rand
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us... Marianne Williamson
“Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.” Noam Chomsky
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. Emo Philips
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Pema Chödrön
Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality. Annalee Newitz
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. Ayn Rand
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. Deepak Chopra
A man is great not because he hasn’t failed; a man is great because failure hasn’t stopped him. Confucius
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Deepak Chopra
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahatma Gandhi
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. Albert Einstein
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Buddha
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Buddha
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. Buddha
“If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.” Thomas Jefferson
“Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.” Henry George
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success, we often discover what will do by finding out what will not do, and probably, he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.