Posted: 8/27/2009 6:53:55 PM EDT
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Anyone know where I could host a word doc? Some of them are anarchist or liberal but if they were interesting I added them. Here is the first 10 pages of 75, can add more if there is interest
–––––––––––––––– "If you're afraid of dying, and you're holdin' on, you'll see the devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels , freein' you from the earth" –– Jacob's Ladder "Four troops of cavalry, four companies of infantry, a machine gun squadron, and six tanks assembled near the White House. General Douglas MacArthur was in charge of the operation, Major Dwight Eisenhower his aide. George S. Patton was one of the officers. MacArthur led his troops down Pennsylvania Avenue, used tear gas to clear veterans out of the old buildings, and set the buildings on fire. Then the army moved across the bridge to Anacostia. Thousands of veterans, wives, children, began to run as the tear gas spread. The soldiers set fire to some of the huts, and soon the whole encampment was ablaze. When it was all over, two veterans had been shot to death, an eleven-week-old baby had died, an eight-year-old boy was partially blinded by gas, two police had fractured skulls, and a thousand veterans were injured by gas. " –– Howard Zinn’s description of how the U.S. handled the 1932 "Bonus Army" demand for desperately needed payment on their government certificates. "The Dokudo" The Way I Go By Myself I never act contrary to traditional morality. I have no partiality for anyone or anything. I never try to snatch a moment of ease. I think little of myself but much of the public. I am entirely free of acquisitiveness throughout my life. I never regret what I have done. I never envy others for their good luck, or on account of my ill luck. I never grieve at parting from anyone or anything at whatever time. I never reproach either myself or others; never complain about myself or others. I never dream of falling in love with a woman. Likes and dislikes, I have none. Whatever my dwelling house may be, I take no objection to it. I never desire dainty food for myself. I never have antique objects or curios in my posession. I never perform purification or observe abstinence to protect myself against evils. I have no taste for implements of any kind, excepting swords and other arms. I would never grudge my life in the cause of righteousness. I never wish to have any estate that would make my old age comfortable. I worship Gods and Buddhas, but never think of depending on them. I would sooner lay down my life than disgrace my good name. Never for a moment does my heart and soul stray from the way of swordsmanship. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– "In ourselves our safety must be sought, By our own right hand it must be wrought." –– William Wordsworth ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- "It is better to deserve honours and not have them, than to have them and not to deserve them." –– Mark Twain –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– "The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action." –– Confucius –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– "The frightening nature of knowledge leaves one no alternative but to become a warrior." –– "don Juan," from Casteneda’s A Separate Reality (p. 150) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- "Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." –– Aristotle Kyojutsu –– Ancient ninja art of making the possible impossible and the impossible possible. We must discover new frontiers... People have been standing for centuries before a worm-eaten door, making pinholes in it with increasing ease. The time has come to kick it down, for it is only on the other side that everything begins. ––Raoul Vaneigem "The fire of God has touched my hands / I've seen the darkness in men's hearts / And I've played Hendrix albums at 78 speed" –– 'Ergot' by Big Black "Do not pray for an easy life, pray to be a strong person." ––anonymous "Discretion is the better part of valor." Falstaff, in KING HENRY THE FOURTH, By Will Shakespeare There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. –– Douglas Everett Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ––Dion Boucicault But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ––Benjamin Disraeli I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ––James A. Baldwin The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ––Pablo Casals I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ––Eugene Debs I am not a... leader. I don't want you to follow me or anything else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the... wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ––E. Debs The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. ––E. Debs When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. ––One more time, Eugene Debs Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ––Albert Einstein A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ––William R. Inge A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ––William James Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ––W. James Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ––W. James Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. ––W. James Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits. ––W. James Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ––W. James It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence ––W. James Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ––W. James "The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." –– Joseph Heller, Catch-22 "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange æons, even death may die" ––Necromonicon If you see a two-headed pig, keep your mouth shut. ––irish proverb Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ––Thomas Hardy "Hunger is the best spice they say." ––Spike Spiegel, Cowboy Bebop "All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost." –– J.R.R. Tolkien Jesus said, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same...then you will enter the Kingdom of God." –– from GOSPEL OF THOMAS, saying #22 "The mark of the imature man is that he wants to die for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." –– J.D. Salinger "Hiphop is the true imperfect art. Vinyl, as a flawed and discarded relic, is an ideal tool for music formed from the waste that falls from the abundant tables of the prosperous post-modern city." ––Charles Mudede "Acid is not for every brain - only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain." ––St. Timothy (Dr. Tim Leary) The tripalium is an instrument of torture. The Latin word labor means "suffering". We are unwise to forget this origin of the words "travail" and "labour". ––Raoul Vaneigem "If we do not 'come to our senses' soon, we will have permanently forfeited the chance of constructing any meaningful alternatives to the pseudo-existence which passes for life in our current 'Civilization of the Image.'" ––David Howes Only as a band of armed poets are we to overcome every day fascism. ––Sharon Gannon "Morte alla Francia Italia anela!", meaning "Death to the French is Italy's cry!" –– what MAFIA stands for. Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. These philosophies use anarchy to mean a society based on voluntary cooperation of free individuals. Philosophical anarchist thought does not advocate chaos or anomie ; it intends "anarchy" to refer to a manner of human relations that is intentionally established and maintained. –– Definition, Anarchism Do not stand by my grave and weep ... I am not there; I do not sleep. When you awaken in the morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds circling in flight. Do not stand by my grave and cry ... I am not there. I did not die. –– Royster "It is better to have lived one day as a lion than one thousand days as a sheep." Inscription on the stone of –– Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Clinger, USA, Section 8, Arlington National Cemetery. Tell them of us and say, For their tomorrows, We gave our today. –– The Kohima Epitaph "To realize freedom, the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness." –– Bruce Lee "Words are powerful tools for a warrior, for they literally shape our world. We therefore learn how a warrior approaches the correct use of words." ––Theun Mares "A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote." ––William Butler Yeats "Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can’t have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things." ––John Lame Deer "Under current law, it’s a crime for a private citizen to lie to a government official, but not for the same official to lie to the people." ––Donald M. Frazer "Have you noticed that most people who are against abortion are people you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place?" ––George Carlin ‘If you get a bad hamburger, you don’t blame Ronald McDonald.’ ––Bobcat Goldthwait "The trouble with our Texas Baptists is that we do not hold them under water long enough." ––William Brann, editor of The Iconoclast, who was shortly thereafter shot in the back by an irate Baptist, whom he managed to mortally wound with his own revolver before expiring (1898) "You have plenty of rights in this country, provided you don’t get caught exercising them." ––Terry Mitchell, from "The Revolutionary Toker" "Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced." ––Elbert Hubbard "One has the right to be wrong in a democracy." ––Claude Pepper "Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you." ––George Bernard Shaw "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one." ––A. J. Liebling "If a drug-free America is such a good idea, why aren’t members of the House of Representatives taking drug tests? Why isn’t the U.S. Senate pissing into jars on C-Span?" ––P. J. O’Rourke, from Parliament of Whores "The more laws, the less justice." ––Cicero "All laws which can be violated without doing anyone any injury are laughed at." ––Spinoza "When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy." ––anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." ––George Bernard Shaw "I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist only in the present, which is what there is and all that there is." ––Alan Watts, "Props to Pace" "The warrior preserves and protects but does not conquer, dominate, or subjugate. Only the enemy will have to fear a warrior’s skills." –– Richard Heckler "The warrior’s role in society is to protect life and social order by placing himself between that which would endanger both." –– Greg Walker "You have put me in here as a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl!" ––Carry Nation (1901) "In all forms of warfare the loser is beaten in spirit before he is beaten in fact." –– David J. Rogers "The best warrior leads without haste fights without anger overcomes without confrontation He puts himself below and brings out the highest in his men" –– Lao Tzu, from Tao Te Ching, The Definitive Edition (Star translation), Verse 68 "May you die with your boots on!" –– olde riflemen’s toast "Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Man were born to succeed, not to fail." –– Henry David Thoreau "Ridicule is a weak weapon, when leveled at a strong mind; But common men are cowards and dread an empty laugh." –– Martin Farquhar Tupper "Beware of the man who has no regard for his own reputation, since it is not likely he should have any for yours." –– George Shelley "The man who enjoys keenly, is subject to keen suffering; while he who feels but little pain is capable of feeling but little joy." ––The Kybalion "There are four things that come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity." ––Omar of Persia "Do more than exist ; live. Do more than touch ; feel. Do more than look ; observe. Do more than read ; absorb. Do more than hear ; listen. Do more than listen ; understand." ––John H. Rhoades "It hath been said that the continuation of the species is due to man’s forgiving. Forgiveness is holiness; by forgiveness the universe is held together. Forgiveness is the might of the mighty; forgiveness is sacrifice; forgiveness is quiet of mind. Forgiveness and gentleness are the qualities of the Self-possessed. They represent eternal virtue." ––from the Mahabharata "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, pitch manure, solve equations, analyze a new problem, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for the insects." ––Robert Heinlein, from The Notebooks of Lazarus Long "To the pure, all things are pure; to the base, all things are base." ––from The Kybalion "The only reason stereotypes exist is because they happen to be accurate so damn often." ––Spider 1%er "Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry." ––Henry Ward Beecher, from Life Thoughts "Beware the fury of a patient man." ––John Dryden, from Absalom and Achitophel "Estrangement permeates our society so strongly that to us it seems to be consciousness itself. Even the language for other possibilities has disappeared or been deliberately twisted. Yet another form of consciousness is possible. Indeed, it has existed from earliest times, underlies other cultures, and has survived even in the West in hidden streams. This is the consciousness I call immanence ; the awareness of the world and everything in it as alive, dynamic, interdependent, interacting, and infused with living energies: a living being, a weaving dance." ––Starhawk, from Dreaming the Dark (p. 9) "I’m here with, basically, nothing to say. And that’s what I want to talk to you about tonight. Are you saying what you really mean to say? Do you even know what you’re really thinking?" ––J. R. "Bob" Dobbs |
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Here are a few more for you ... Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. –– Ayn Rand Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. –– Douglas Adams Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. –– Theodore Roosevelt A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. –– Robert A. Heinlein |