Don’t Fear the Truth

Shane March 20th, 2007

“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts… For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” - Patrick Henry

“Do not believe on the strength of traditions even if they have been held in honour for many generations and in many places ; do not believe anything because many people speak of it ; do not believe on the strength of sages of old times ; do not believe that which you have yourself imagined, thinking that a god has inspired you. Believe nothing which depends only on the authority of your masters or of priests. After investigation, believe that which you have yourselves tested and found reasonable, and which is for your good, and that of others.” - Buddha

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.” - Benjamin Franklin

“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.” - Bertrand Russell

“Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.” - unknown

“Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.” - Thomas Jefferson

“Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies.” - Thomas Jefferson

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein

Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. - Robert A. Heinlein

““The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, “Hey – don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride…” And we… kill those people.
“We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real.” Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter because: It’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”

Bill Hicks (December 16, 1961—February 26, 1994) -Bill Hicks.

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. - Unknown

They who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness. - John Milton

If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them. - Paul Wellstone

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” - Albert Einstein

“The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages…will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without suspecting that the system is inimical to their best interests.” - Rothschild Brothers’ of London communique to associates in New York June 25, 1863

“It’s quite comical actually, when you realize the difference between reality, and what some people are talking on TV about.” George Bush, finally speaking the Truth.

“If Liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”. - Unknown

“If I’d written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” —Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, February 15, 1973

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” -Gandhi

“If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.” -Henry David Thoreau

“A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.” -Ayn Rand

The first Industrial Revolution is flawed. It is not working. It is unsustainable. It is the mistake. And we must move on to a better Industrial Revolution and get it right this time. - Ray Anderson, former CEO of Interface Inc.

“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order […] and the like.” - Justice William O. Douglas

“Necessity” is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

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