Ever run across quotes that just seem so timely and profound.......

[marmar]

[font size="4"]If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -- George Orwell

It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free - to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation, wants him to think, feel and act. The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective. -- Aldous Huxley

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; The other is to refuse to accept what is true. -- Soren Kierkegaard[/font]

[Autumn]

1. DUer seaglass posted something the other day that hit me as profound

"The absence of love is not hate."

[Journeyman]

2. ". . . it is indifference."

[Autumn]

4. That's the rest of it? I really liked it.

it just stuck with me.

[quinnox]

3. yes

often. Some human beings are enlightened, or wise beyond normal people, however you want to say it.

[babylonsister]

5. Rec'd! Yes indeed! nt

[Electric Monk]

6. “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” - Dr. Seuss

[Egalitarian Thug]

7. All the time, that's what's so depressing. I know quotations that are centuries old,

and yet, are just as relevant today as then. It just goes to show that we are just as fucking stupid today as we were then.

We're exactly the same people that, 300 years ago knew that illness was caused by demons from hell that had invaded your body. That cats were the embodiment of demons and familiars/lovers of witches. Homo sapiens is probably the greatest overestimation of capacity in history.

[sheshe2]

8. My favorite~

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; The other is to refuse to accept what is true. -- Soren Kierkegaard

Thanks, marmar.