Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes on December 16, 2007 | No Comments »
From the Church of Stories:
“‘In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant.’ Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.” —Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey by Mary Chase
Three Sufi sayings:
“I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.” —Bayazid al-Bistami
“I went to a wilderness, love [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes on September 4, 2007 | 13 Comments »
“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes on September 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Lenny Bruce is one of the champions of laughing at injustice. He had many targets, and his tools were part of his cause. He was arrested repeatedly for profanity. As he observed, “Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.“
Yes, it is sad commentary on [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes, taxes on September 1, 2007 | 10 Comments »
In the comments to when do you stop fighting and start laughing?, someone said:
if you really think that “there’s nothing more heroic than laughter at people who love violence,” then really, I have nothing more to say, because such cowardice boggles the mind.
Her comment may have come from ignorance of history, or it may’ve come [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes on August 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
“Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.”
“If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, quotes on August 24, 2007 | 28 Comments »
“Men did not make the earth… It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property… Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.”
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged quotes, world week on December 31, 2006 | No Comments »
Antarctica is Greek for “opposite the Arctic.” It’s the third-smallest continent, larger than Australia and Europe. It has no permanent residents. In 1959, a treaty was signed by twelve nations, formally making Antarctica a continent without countries that is owned by no country.
A plaque in Antarctica bears this quote by one of its early explorers, [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged quotes, vegetarianism on August 10, 2006 | 10 Comments »
“I am a great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit.” Sir Andrew in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” Albert Einstein
“Food in camp was simple: bread or porridge, some vegetable, [...]
