Quotes

"The eternal Light had hidden Itself in Its humanity to such an extent that the powers of darkness needed lanterns to find it."

-Fr. James Groenings

"Let no one gain the impression I am recommending that we should learn to hypnotize ourselves in order to make use of our subconscious resources. I would be more inclined to say the opposite, that we should learn how to de-hypnotize ourselves; for most of us have already been unwittingly exerting upon ourselves a vicious, negative and hypnotic influence."

-Willard L. Russell 

"Why should I be afraid to die? There's no reason for it. You've got to go sometime."

-Pink Floyd

"Life is what we do between our first and last breath."

-Loping Buzzard

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more they will hate those that speak it."

-Selwyn Duke

"I am not a number. I am a free man!"

-The Prisoner

We are in a self-obsessed moment of mankind. Everything is marketed towards the idea of the self, but not the real self - rather, what you want people to think you are. Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self...The idea that people would spend some of their own human experience discussing the most trivial everyday experiences of somebody else's life I find strange and very sad in many ways.

-Hozier

"The Bible is a book. It is a good book, but it is not the only book." 

-Henry Drummond (Played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind - 1960)

"The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without."

 -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

-Henry David Thoreau

Rock ain't about gettin' loaded and acting like a jerk. Now, this is serious business here, man! We've got a mission! Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the World! Do you understand me? -Dewey Finn (Played by Jack Black in School of Rock - 2003)

We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study, too...We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

-Bush Administration Senior Aide (via interview with Journalist Ron Suskind before '04 election)

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality. 

-Ralph Nader (Harvard Law School, 1/15/1992)

Most people think Great God will come from the skies. Take away everything and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth. And now you see the light, you stand up for your rights.

-Bob Marley (Get Up, Stand Up)

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the study of dead religions.

-Oscar Wilde