Quotes

Below are some quotes from songs, books, movies and friends that have guided me, inspired me, enlightened me and calmed me over the years.

Hopefully some of them will do the same for you…

“You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”

Matthew 5:14-16, The New American Bible

“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everywhere is war, me say war”

Bob Marley

“You can not change others, you can only change yourself and how you react to others.”

I don’t remember where I heard this, but likely many, many people have throughout time

“Do or do not… there is no try”

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

Master Yoda, STAR WARS

“Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?”

Frank Herbert, DUNE

“Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one’s perceptions and transforming one’s self.”

Tom Robbins??

“Let me issue and control a nations’s money and I care not who writes the laws.”

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790

“Control the coinage and the courts, let the rabble have the rest.”

Frank Herbert, God Emperor of DUNE

“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution - taking from the federal government their power of borrowing.”

Thomas Jefferson, 1798

“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815

“The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and  credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of  consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.”

President of the United State of America, Abraham Lincoln

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

President of the United State of America, Woodrow Wilson - in reference to signing the Federal Reserve Act in 1913

WAR IS PEACE.

SLAVERY IS FREEDOM.

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

George Orwell, 1984