"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" -Voltaire
"Even when the forests grew sparse, the trees kept voting for the axe" -Chinese poem
"We know that no one seizes power with the intent to relinquish it" - George Orwell
"When a slave becomes a happy slave, he effectively relinquishes all that makes him human" - Frederick Douglass
"The right of freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave" - Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists
"Don't you see the plants, the birds, and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you're not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren't you running to do what your nature demands?" -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest , jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil" -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"Recieve wealth or prosperity without arrogance; be ready to let it go" -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"Soon you will have forgotten all things, and all things will have forgotten you" -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." -Woodrow Wilsom, former President of the United States
"Each and every time a bank makes a loan, new bank credit is created -new deposits- brand new money." -Graham F. Towers, Governor, Bank of Canada, 1934-54
"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled" -John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." -Mayer Anselm Rothschild
"Everyone sub-consciously knows banks do not lend money. when you draw on your savings account, the bank doesn't tell you you can't do this because it has lent the money to somebody else." -Mark Mansfield, economist and author
"I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will nto like to be told that banks can and do create money... And they who control the cred of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people." -Reginald McKenna, past Chairman of the Board, Midlands Bank of England
"Thus our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess." -Irving Fisher, economist and author
"That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money." -Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman and Governor of the Federal Reserve Board
"Whoever seeks shouldn't stop until they find. When they find, they'll be disturbed. When they're disturbed, they'll be […] amazed, and reign over the All." -Jesus Christ
"If your leaders tell you, 'Look, the kingdom is in heaven,' then the birds of heaven will precede you. If they tell you, 'It's in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is within you and outside of you. When you know yourselves, then you'll be known, and you'll realize that you're the children of the living Father. But if you don't know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty." -Jesus Christ
"Know what's in front of your face, and what's hidden from you will be revealed to you, because there's nothing hidden that won't be revealed." -Jesus Christ
"His disciples said to him, "Do you want us to fast? And how should we pray? Should we make donations? And what food should we avoid?"
Jesus said, "Don't lie, and don't do what you hate, because everything is revealed in the sight of heaven; for there's nothing hidden that won't be revealed, and nothing covered up that will stay secret." -The Gospel of Thomas
"Blessed is the lion that's eaten by a human and then becomes human, but how awful for the human who's eaten by a lion, and the lion becomes human." -Jesus Christ
"The human being is like a wise fisher who cast a net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of little fish. Among them the wise fisher found a fine large fish and cast all the little fish back down into the sea, easily choosing the large fish. Anyone who has ears to hear should hear!" -Jesus Christ
"Look, a sower went out, took a handful of seeds, and scattered them. Some fell on the roadside; the birds came and gathered them. Others fell on the rock; they didn't take root in the soil and ears of grain didn't rise toward heaven. Yet others fell on thorns; they choked the seeds and worms ate them. Finally, others fell on good soil; it produced fruit up toward heaven, some sixty times as much and some a hundred and twenty." -Jesus Christ
"I've cast fire on the world, and look, I'm watching over it until it blazes." -Jesus Christ
"This heaven will disappear, and the one above it will disappear too. Those who are dead aren't alive, and those who are living won't die. In the days when you ate what was dead, you made it alive. When you're in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became divided. But when you become divided, what will you do?" -Jesus Christ
"If you fast, you'll bring guilt upon yourselves; and if you pray, you'll be condemned; and if you make donations, you'll harm your spirits. If they welcome you when you enter any land and go around in the countryside, heal those who are sick among them and eat whatever they give you, because it's not what goes into your mouth that will defile you. What comes out of your mouth is what will defile you." -Jesus Christ
"When you see the one who wasn't born of a woman, fall down on your face and worship that person. That's your Father." -Jesus Christ
"Maybe people think that I've come to cast peace on the world, and they don't know that I've come to cast divisions on the earth: fire, sword, and war. Where there are five in a house, there'll be three against two and two against three, father against and son and son against father. They'll stand up and be one." -Jesus Christ
"The disciples said to Jesus, 'Tell us about our end. How will it come?' Jesus said, 'Have you discovered the beginning so that you can look for the end? Because the end will be where the beginning is. Blessed is the one who will stand up in the beginning. They'll know the end, and won't taste death." -The Gospel of Thomas
"Blessed is the one who came into being before coming into being. If you become my disciples and listen to my message, these stones will become your servants; because there are five trees in paradise which don't change in summer or winter, and their leaves don't fall. Whoever knows them won't taste death." -Jesus Christ
"The disciples asked Jesus, 'Tell us, what can the kingdom of heaven be compared to?' He said to them, 'It can be compared to a mustard seed. Though it's the smallest of all the seeds, when it falls on tilled soil it makes a plant so large that it shelters the birds of heaven." -The Gospel of Thomas
"Mary said to Jesus, 'Whom are your disciples like?'
He said, 'They're like little children living in a field which isn't theirs. When the owners of the field come, they'll say, 'Give our field back to us.' They'll strip naked in front of them to let them have it and give them their field. So I say that if the owner of the house realizes the bandit is coming, they'll watch out beforehand and won't let the bandit break into the house of their domain and steal their possessions. You, then, watch out for the world! Prepare to defend yourself so that the bandits don't attack you, because what you're expecting will come. May there be a wise person among you! 'When the fruit ripened, the reaper came quickly, sickle in hand, and harvested it. Anyone who has ears to hear should hear!" -Jesus Christ
"Jesus saw some little children nursing. He said to his disciples, 'These nursing children can be compared to those who enter the kingdom.'
They said to him, 'Then we'll enter the kingdom as little children?'
Jesus said to them, 'When you make the two into one, and make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and so make the male and the female a single one so that the male won't be male nor the female female; when you make eyes in the place of an eye, a hand in the place of a hand, a foot in the place of a foot, and an image in the place of an image; then you'll enter [the kingdom]." -The Gospel of Thomas
"I'll choose you, one out of a thousand and two out of ten thousand, and they'll stand as a single one." -Jesus Christ
"I stood in the middle of the world and appeared to them in the flesh. I found them all drunk; I didn't find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they were blind in their hearts and couldn't see. They came into the world empty and plan on leaving the world empty. Meanwhile, they're drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they'll change." -Jesus Christ
"If the flesh came into existence because of spirit, that's amazing. If spirit came into existence because of the body, that's really amazing! But I'm amazed at how [such] great wealth has been placed in this poverty." -Jesus Christ
"No prophet is welcome in their own village. No doctor heals those who know them." -Jesus Christ
"A city built and fortified on a high mountain can't fall, nor can it be hidden." -Jesus Christ
"What you hear with one ear, listen to with both, then proclaim from your rooftops. No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket or in a hidden place. Rather, they put it on the stand so that everyone who comes and goes can see its light." -Jesus Christ
"If someone who's blind leads someone else who's blind, both of them fall into a pit." -Jesus Christ
"No one can break into the house of the strong and take it by force without tying the hands of the strong. Then they can loot the house." -Jesus Christ
"Don't be anxious from morning to evening or from evening to morning about what you'll wear." -Jesus Christ
"His disciples said, 'When will you appear to us? When will we see you?'
Jesus said, 'When you strip naked without being ashamed, and throw your clothes on the ground and stomp on them as little children would, then [you'll] see the Son of the Living One and won't be afraid." -Jesus Christ
"Whoever has something in hand will be given more, but whoever doesn't have anything will lose even what little they do have." -Jesus Christ
"If they ask you, 'Where do you come from?' tell them, 'We've come from the light, the place where light came into being by itself, [established] itself, and appeared in their image.' If they ask you, 'Is it you?' then say, 'We are its children, and we're chosen by our living Father.' If they ask you, 'What's the sign of your Father in you?' then say, 'It's movement and rest." -Jesus Christ
"His disciples said to him, 'Is circumcision useful, or not?'He said to them, 'If it were useful, parents would have children who are born circumcised. But the true circumcision in spirit has become profitable in every way." -The Gospel of Thomas