Axis Reflections
There are no fixed limits
Time does not stand still
Nothing endures
Nothing is final
“Money has no Motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
- Napoleon Boneparte
“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities” - David Hume
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. - Ho Chi Minh
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. - Abbie Hoffman
"That rifle on the wall of the laborer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there!" -George Orwell
Uselessness
An ancient gnarled tree:
Too fibrous for a logger's saw,
Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square,
Outlasts the whole forest.
- Deng Ming-Dao
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. When you see large masses of men swayed by what appear to be noble motives, it is well to look below the surface and ask yourself what it is that makes these motives effective. . .
The main thing needed to make the world happy is intelligence. And this, after all is an optimistic conclusion, because intelligence is a thing that can be fostered by known methods of education.
- Bertrand Russell
“Most of us know that our founding fathers intended for the democratic government to be chosen by a well-read electorate. We know now that didn't happen. In the end, maybe demagogy is unavoidable.”
– Leigh Saavedra, author and activist
Returning
Angles against lavender sky
Flung far across heaven’s vault
Unfettered, swallows
Circle back to the nest.
The Soul of the Indian: The Dual Mind
views and compassion
"I can't live without a culture anymore and I realize I don't have one. What passes for a culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials and this is intolerable. It may be impossible to live without a culture."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods
the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too young to have learned what sorrow means,
Attired for spring, she climbs to her high chamber. . . .
The new green of the street-willows is wounding her heart -
Just for a title she sent him to war.
- Wang Changling
He who travels far will often see things
Far removed from what he believed was the Truth.
When he talks about it in the fields at home,
He is often accused of lying,
For the obdurate people will not believe
Inexperience, I believe,
Will give little credence to my song.
- Journey to the East, Hermann Hesse
"If we
have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each
other."
-Mother Teresa
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them."
- Ray Bradbury
"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad .... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse."
- Albert Camus
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some
difference that you have lived and lived well."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"First, they ignore. Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you. Then you win."
Mahatma Gandhi
"A man's feet should be planted in his country,
but his eyes should survey the world."
- George Santayana
"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow."
- Charles Brower
"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."
- Victor Hugo
"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it."
- Samuel Butler
"I want to know what sustains you
from the inside when else falls away."
~ Orih Mountain Dreamer~
"I can't live without a culture anymore and I realize I don't have one. What passes for a culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials and this is intolerable. It may be impossible to live without a culture."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Terrorism is the war of the poor and
war is the terrorism of the rich."
-- Peter Ustinov
Thunderous Applause
Two occasions lst week for thunderous applause
1) Arab journalists walked silently out of a press
conference of Secretary of State Powell in
quiet dignity and silent protest.
2) Hundreds of thousands of people all over the world
loudly and with clear emotion said NO MORE WAR
and BRING OUR BOYS HOME.
- Dennis Jackson
All human power is a compound of time and patience."
- Honore de Balzac
"All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation."
- Bertrand Russell
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
- Cicero
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