Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

'Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too'.
Frederick Buechner

"You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served."
Anon


"Besides, if we are to believe Britain has the skill to strike out on its own on the global stage, it is surely within its capability to create a safety net to protect its people at home. No matter what recent incarnations suggest, incompetence and indifference need not go hand in hand with government. The only other option is almost too shameful to admit: abandoning emaciated disabled people is the best Brexit Britain can do."
Frances Ryan

"If humans killed each other at the same rate that we kill animals, weÔÇÖd be extinct in 17 days."
The humane league


ÔÇ£Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.ÔÇØ
Anon

ÔÇ£Great wits are sure to madness near allied, & thin partitions do their bounds divide.ÔÇØ
Dryden

[Lilith7]

"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents


ÔÇ£The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder & mystery. There is always more mystery."
Anais Nin

ÔÇ£Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.ÔÇØ
Mulla Nasrudin

ÔÇ£Enlightenment must come little by little. Otherwise it would overwhelm.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the ÔÇ£veils ÔÇ£ which have to be dissolved in the mind.ÔÇØ
Idries Shah

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The word ÔÇÿchoiceÔÇÖ is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief uses you.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Materialism, attachment to things of the world includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Have you noticed how many who walk in the shade curse the sun?ÔÇØ
Idries Shah

[Lilith7]

"A bad attitude is like a flat tyre. You canÔÇÖt go anywhere until you change it."
Anon




ÔÇ£You want to take our guns, but you donÔÇÖt know Jack about guns. See the problem?ÔÇØ
Candice Alston

ÔÇ£Damn near 100% of the men trying to regulate my uterus canÔÇÖt find my clitoris, Tammy.ÔÇØ

'My country is the world, my religion to do good'.
Thomas Paine.

"They hang the man & flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose

The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords & ladies fine
Who take the things that are yours & mine."


"Whenever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side."
Hugh Latimer (1487 ÔÇô 1555)

[Lilith7]

" We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate but make no mistake, we cannot be both".
Richard Paul Evans


ÔÇ£Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth ÔÇÿYou owe meÔÇØ.
Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.ÔÇØ
Hafiz, Persian poet, 1300s.


"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon & the truth."
Buddha

"Teach not thy parentÔÇÖs mother to extract
The embryo juices of the bird by suction.
The good old lady can that feat enact,
Quite irrespective of your kind instruction. "
Anon

[Lilith7]

Nicked from FB:
"YOU MATTER.
Unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light.
Then you energy."


"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.ÔÇØ
Voltaire


ÔÇ£War itself is of course, a form of madness. ItÔÇÖs amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other & so little time working on how to achieve peace.ÔÇØ
Walter Cronkite


"Get an abortion or don't.
Be gay. Be straight.
Be transgender.
Believe in God. Be an atheist.
I am pro-leave people alone. I am pro-respect people even if you disagree with them.
I am pro-supporting family and friends. I am pro-mind your own damned business."
Jennifer Saunders site

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£My dad was a Catholic, my mum was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I am married to a Muslim. So I never say anything about any religion .ÔÇØ
Michael Caine


ÔÇ£Truer & clearer perceptions of truth & justice, of rights & duties have been gained...It has been realised that the peer & the peasant, the male & the female, are fashioned out of one common clay; that the accident of birth or the incidence of sex cannot be allowed to bar the right of each human being to self development.ÔÇØ
Kate Sheppard, 1919


"Reading kills prejudice"
Nina George

ÔÇ£DonÔÇÖt take criticism from people you wouldnÔÇÖt go to for advice.ÔÇØ
Anon

ÔÇ£ A people who elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves & traitors are not victims but accomplices.ÔÇØ
Anon


ÔÇ£Books are seeds, & they grow in minds.ÔÇØ
Ken Liu

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Books are the carriers of civilisation. Without books, history is silent, literature is dumb, science is crippled, thought & speculation at a standstill.
They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.ÔÇØ
Barbara W. Tuchman


"I often hear people saying what theyÔÇÖd like to have in life, well here are a few of the things IÔÇÖd like.
IÔÇÖd like those who are feeling ill to feel better.
IÔÇÖd like every child to have someone who loves & cares for them.
IÔÇÖd like those people who struggle every day to have a change of fortune & IÔÇÖd like to see more people showing care & compassion towards others less fortunate.

I would like to see this message spread across the whole world for others to read."
Dave Hedges

"Never trust a man who can be in the same room as a tea cosy without trying it on"
Billy Conolly

"A lot of people say that it's a lack of vocabulary that makes you swear. Rubbish! I know thousands of words but I still prefer f*ck."
Billy Connolly

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago" Warren Buffett

[Lilith7]

"If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children".
attributed to Confucius

ÔÇ£Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.ÔÇØ
Vandana Shiva

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.ÔÇØ

Vandana Shiva

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.ÔÇØ



ÔÇ£The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have "invented" the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds.ÔÇØ

Vandana Shiva

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to us in the late twentieth century, a period of a totalitarianism linked with the market. There is really no other way you can do politics and create freedom for people without the kinds of instruments he revived. Civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£When you control seed you control food.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and draw the right lessons from that destruction, we might be able to rebuild before it's too late. And then I have that ultimate optimism that even if we can't, life will rebuild itself. In a way, the global economy might collapse, but Gaia won't, and people's ingenuity won't. We will rebuild society, we will rebuild local economies, we will rebuild human aspirations.ÔÇØ

Vandana Shiva

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I donÔÇÖt trust anyone who is nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.ÔÇØ
Muhammad Ali


ÔÇ£You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, & a compulsion to do something about it.
From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty.
You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck, & drag him a quarter of a million miles out & say:
ÔÇ£Look at that, you son of a bitch.ÔÇØ
Edgar Mitchell, Astronaut.


ÔÇ£Nice people made the best Nazis. My Mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly, & focused on happier things than ÔÇÿpoliticsÔÇÖ. They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbours were dragged away. You know who werenÔÇÖt nice people?
Resisters.ÔÇØ
Naomi Shulman


ÔÇ£How is it possible that the most intellectual creature to ever walk the planet Earth is destroying its only home?ÔÇØ
Jane Goodall


ÔÇ£I want any young men who buy a gun to be treated like young women who seek an abortion. Think about it: a mandatory 48-hours waiting period, written permission from a parent or a judge, a note from a doctor proving that he understands what he is about to do, time spent watching a video on individual and mass murders, traveling hundreds of miles at his own expense to the nearest gun shop, and walking through protestors holding photos of loved ones killed by guns, protestor who call him a murderer.

After all, it makes more sense to do this for young men seeking guns than for young women seeking an abortion. No young woman needing reproductive freedom has ever murdered a roomful of strangers.ÔÇØ
Anon (often attributed to Gloria Steinem)

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.ÔÇØ
Martin Luther King Jr.


ÔÇ£Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living beings , man will not himself find peace.ÔÇØ
Albert Schweitzer


ÔÇ£People donÔÇÖt want much ÔÇô just somewhere to live, something to do, someone to love & something to hope for.ÔÇØ
Norman Kirk

ÔÇ£Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.ÔÇØ
Anon

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.

But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
Carl Sagan

ÔÇ£Actually no, my post wasnÔÇÖt about you.
But if the shoe fits, feel free to lace that bit*h up & wear it.ÔÇØ
Anon


"A job is a job. Whether youÔÇÖre a doctor or a cleaner.
You have no right to mock someone just because youÔÇÖre earning more money than the other person.
WeÔÇÖre all just trying to put food on our table."
Anon

"Deja poo
Adjective: The feeling of having heard this crap before."
Anon

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.ÔÇØ
Elie Wiesel

ÔÇ£Diversity is having a seat at the table, inclusion is having a voice, & belonging is having that voice be heard.ÔÇØ
Liz & Mollie


ÔÇ£What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.ÔÇØ
Albert Einstein

ÔÇ£Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.ÔÇØ
Mahatma Gandhi

ÔÇ£Racism is manÔÇÖs gravest threat to man ÔÇô the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.ÔÇØ
Abraham Joshua Heschel

ÔÇ£If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.ÔÇØ
Kofi Annan

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.ÔÇØ
Immanuel Kant


ÔÇ£Money is the worst drug of all.ÔÇØ
Peyton Marshall

"Not everyone has a two income family & not everyone has help. Not everyone has money in a savings account to fall back on. Every parent does not have a reliable babysitter or a reliable vehicle.
Some people only have themselves. Some people live paycheque to paycheque.
These people also deserve respect.
The world is cruel enough as it is.
So, before telling people how they should deal with situations in their life, just donÔÇÖt.
Show kindness instead.
Most of us are already doing the best that we can."
Anon

ÔÇÿInsanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.'ÔÇØ
Rita Mae Brown ÔÇô often misattributed to Einstein.

ÔÇ£Common sense & a sense of humour are the same thing moving at different speeds.
A sense of humour is just common sense dancing.
Clive James

ÔÇ£You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.ÔÇØ
Madeleine LÔÇÖEngle



ÔÇ£The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians ÔÇô because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognise injustice & speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.ÔÇØ
Madeleine LÔÇÖEngle

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches or two planes? What will these objects do for me, & for the world? I built schools, a stadium, we provide clothes, shoes, food for people who are in extreme poverty. I did not have an education & many other things, but today with what I earn thanks to football, I can help my people.ÔÇØ
Sadio Mane


ÔÇ£You shouldnÔÇÖt have to be young until youÔÇÖre old enough to cope with it.ÔÇØ
Janis Joplin


ÔÇ£Socialism is a scareword they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free & independent labour organisations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all of the people.ÔÇØ
Harry S Truman, 1952

[Lilith7]

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."


ÔÇ£Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.ÔÇØ

Lao Tzu

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains & earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.ÔÇØ
Lao Tzu



"If you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know others but know yourself, you win one and lose one; if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle."
Sun Tzu

"The desire to become a politician should be sufficient to warrant being banned from ever doing so for life."

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But, I repeat myself"

"Politicians and diapers must be changed often,& for the same reason."

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."
Mark Twain