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[Quote No.48877] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Be kind to others:] In an experimental research program, a relationship was found between happiness and helping behavior. By helping others, we create positive bonds with people and enhance our self image. Those who had more opportunities to offer help felt 11 percent better about themselves!" - Pegalis 1994
As quoted in the book, 'The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People', David Niven PhD.
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[Quote No.48896] Need Area: Friends > General
"Anxiety over being ostracized, over being an outsider, has driven the behavior of billions for millions of years. Impression management theory says you are always thinking about how you appear to others [your self-image], even when there are no others around. In the absence of onlookers, deep in your mind a mirror reflects back that which you have done, and when you see a person who has behaved in a way that could get you booted from your in-group, the anxiety drives you to seek a realignment." - David McRaney
Quote from his book, 'You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself'.
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[Quote No.48898] Need Area: Friends > General
"Compassion [empathy plus sympathy] is the basis of morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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[Quote No.48900] Need Area: Friends > General
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love." - Henry Miller
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[Quote No.48905] Need Area: Friends > General
"If the representatives of the people [politicians] betray their constituents [and demonstrations, voting for others and the police will not stop the abuse], there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government..." - Alexander Hamilton
(1757-1804) Source: The Federalist No. 28.
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[Quote No.48916] Need Area: Friends > General
"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
" - Patricia Sampson
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[Quote No.48922] Need Area: Friends > General
"Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
" - Ethiopian Proverb
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[Quote No.48930] Need Area: Friends > General
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
" - Walter Lippmann
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[Quote No.48936] Need Area: Friends > General
"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
" - Jean Jacques Rousseau
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[Quote No.48937] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Anger:] Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
" - William Shakespeare
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[Quote No.48941] Need Area: Friends > General
"I and the public know.
What all schoolchildren learn.
Those to whom evil is done.
Do evil in return.
[Hurt people, hurt others!]" - W.H. Auden
(1907-1973), poet.
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[Quote No.48961] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence [-its constitution]." - Justice Tom C. Clark
(1899-1977) US Attorney General, 1945-1949, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1949-1967. Source: delivering the opinion of the Court in MAPP v. OHIO, 367 U.S. 643 (1961)
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[Quote No.48962] Need Area: Friends > General
"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it [legally] requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law." - Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
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[Quote No.48978] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Envy is foolish:] If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back." - Unknown 90 year old
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[Quote No.48983] Need Area: Friends > General
"Forgive but don’t forget." - Unknown 90 year old
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[Quote No.48989] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Envy is foolish:] Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about." - Unknown 90 year old
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[Quote No.49018] Need Area: Friends > General
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russell
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[Quote No.49019] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is [deceived, coerced or] forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it." - Mikhail Bakunin
(1814 - 1876) Russian Revolutionist
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[Quote No.49023] Need Area: Friends > General
"COLLECTIVISM: Collectivism is defined as the theory and practice that makes some sort of group rather than the individual the fundamental unit of political, social, and economic concern. In theory, collectivists insist that the claims of groups, associations, or the state must normally supersede the claims of individuals." - Stephen Grabill
Source: Stephen Grabill and Gregory M. A. Gronbacher, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
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[Quote No.49024] Need Area: Friends > General
"Collectivism [= anti-individualism] holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to 'society,' to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force -- and statism has always been the political corollary of collectivism." - Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
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[Quote No.49025] Need Area: Friends > General
"Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression." - Andrew Bernstein
Professor of philosophy and writer. Source: 'The Capitalist Manifesto - The Great Disconnect'.
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[Quote No.49026] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action." - W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965). Source: 'Of Human Bondage', 1915.
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[Quote No.49027] Need Area: Friends > General
"Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when [you believe] it’s wrong." - Ron Paul
US Republican Congressman, 2012.
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[Quote No.49028] Need Area: Friends > General
"When we talk about our specific political convictions, we think of them as lying somewhere on a spectrum between a 'left' and a 'right.' These terms come from the 1791 French Legislative Assembly, where monarchists sat on the right and antimonarchists sat on the left." - Avi Tuschman
From his book, 'Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us'.
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[Quote No.49032] Need Area: Friends > General
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." - Henry Kissinger
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[Quote No.49038] Need Area: Friends > General
"A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
" - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.49042] Need Area: Friends > General
"Society [company] in every state is a blessing, but Government [control of the many by the few], even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
" - Thomas Paine
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[Quote No.49044] Need Area: Friends > General
"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it!" - Albert Schweitzer
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[Quote No.49046] Need Area: Friends > General
"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
" - Lillian Hellman
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[Quote No.49051] Need Area: Friends > General
"Fear is the foundation of most governments." - John Adams
'Thoughts on Government', 1776.
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[Quote No.49053] Need Area: Friends > General
"For 'community' (except as it is freely created by free individual persons), community conceived as a principle of social order prior and superior to the individual person, can justify any oppression of individual persons so long as it is carried out in the name of 'community' or society or of its agent, the state." - Frank S. Meyer
'In Defense of Freedom', 1962.
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[Quote No.49064] Need Area: Friends > General
"Jealousy comes from counting other's blessings rather than our own." - Unknown
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[Quote No.49066] Need Area: Friends > General
"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules." - Ross Perot
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[Quote No.49076] Need Area: Friends > General
"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful." - Leo Tolstoy
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[Quote No.49086] Need Area: Friends > General
"I am a citizen of the world." - Sylvia Beach
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[Quote No.49087] Need Area: Friends > General
"You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read..." - Keri Hulme
Booker Prize winner
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[Quote No.49111] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism and being your best self:] True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself! False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is." - R. D. Laing
Psychiatrist
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[Quote No.49112] Need Area: Friends > General
"--- War Is a Certainty:
Recently, an associate offered the following observation with regard to the likelihood of war in the immediate future:
‘The big guys like to play chess with the world. It's the biggest game. The bankers need ups and downs and wars to make money. The military needs wars to exist. The politicians need both to exist.’
Whilst he was reiterating a concept we have discussed on many occasions, it occurred to me that I have never seen the subject defined so succinctly, nor so informatively.
Let’s break it down:
---The bankers need ups and downs and wars to make money:
Just as bankers increase their profit as a result of upward and downward economic fluctuations, so, too, do they benefit from war. It is not unusual for a given bank to finance those who would create armed conflict, and indeed, they sometimes bankroll both sides. Whilst banks have other means of making money, war is often more profitable than conventional banking.
--- The military needs war:
The military-industrial complex is in the business of selling armaments to governments. Although armament sales may tick over nicely in peace time, they boom in war time. Therefore, any armament supplier will benefit from war. It matters little whether it is an all-out war or a series of smaller ventures. The object is sales.
--- The politicians need both banks and war:
This is true in the sense that politicians need both bankers and an active military to thrive. Political campaigns depend upon funding. Banks and armament suppliers have long been a major source of campaign funds for candidates of the primary political parties. (If each party is well-paid before the election, favourable treatment towards banks and armament suppliers is assured, regardless of which party wins an election.)
But there is further necessity for armed conflict with regard to politicians. First, it is a truism that a country rarely changes leaders during times of war, and nothing is more imperative to the politician than gaining a further term of office.
Second, nothing distracts the voting public like war. If a politician is receiving increased criticism from the voters, a good war can be counted on to get the voters concentrating more on the war than on the politician’s poor stewardship.
Third, governments typically remove the freedoms of a populace over time. Whilst citizens may object to the loss of their freedoms in normal times, they are often more willing to relinquish them ‘temporarily’ in times of war, ‘for the good of the country.’ Not surprisingly, lost freedoms are seldom reinstated after a war.
Consider the words of James Madison, the fourth US President:
‘Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies and debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended…. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.’
Generally speaking, the citizens of most countries would prefer to avoid war. After all, they rarely benefit from it. But then, the impetus for war is almost never generated by the people of a country. Unless a nation is actually attacked, in nearly every case, the people need to be talked into going to war.
--- Convincing the People:
A good example of this is the US, who, since World War I, have needed convincing on almost every occasion when political leaders proposed war. In World War I, the Lusitania incident was created jointly by the UK and the US to motivate them. In World War II, the goading of Japan was needed. In Vietnam, the trumped-up Gulf of Tonkin incident was needed, and so on.
Suffice to say that, when bankers, the military industrial complex, the politicians, or all three decide to instigate war, war will come to pass. Whether it is a conservative government or a liberal government, if a clear threat does not exist, one will be invented.
As Hermann Goering stated in the Nuremburg trials,
‘Naturally, the common people don’t want war. But after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.’
...
And so, what does that mean to the reader? Assuming he is not invited to take part, shouldn’t the drums of war be of little interest to him? Well, in terms of his own physical safety, that may well be true, but here is an historical fact to consider:
Any country that is considering waging war against another country should first consider that the loser is almost always the country that runs out of money first.
No venture is more costly than warfare. ..." - Jeff Thomas
Quote from Doug Casey’s ‘International Man Communique’, March 17, 2014.
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[Quote No.49113] Need Area: Friends > General
"The [paternalistic, 'big bureaucracy'] State... has had a vested interest in promoting attitudes that would tend to make us skeptical of our own abilities, fearful of the motives of others, and emotionally dependent upon external authorities for purpose and direction in our lives." - Butler D. Shaffer
Professor, Southwestern University School of Law. Source: 'Calculated Chaos', 1985.
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[Quote No.49114] Need Area: Friends > General
"Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right." - Josiah C. Wedgwood
(1872-1943) British Member of Parliament
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[Quote No.49115] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Religious freedom:] It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man’s religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us." - Tertullian
(circa 160 A.D.- circa 230 A.D.) Carthaginian 'Father of Latin theology'. Quote from circa 200 A.D.
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[Quote No.49117] Need Area: Friends > General
"Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms." - Ron Paul
(1935- ), American physician, US Congressman (Republican-Texas), US Presidential candidate.
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[Quote No.49119] Need Area: Friends > General
"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too." - John Kenneth Galbraith
a Canadian and, later, American economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism.
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[Quote No.49123] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism:] If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
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[Quote No.49129] Need Area: Friends > General
"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows." - Michel de Montaigne
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[Quote No.49130] Need Area: Friends > General
"I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life." - Julia Roberts
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[Quote No.49133] Need Area: Friends > General
"In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough." - Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
(1688-1763), dramatist and novelist
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[Quote No.49145] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy [to be just and moral, not merely self-interested mob rule] must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." - James Bovard
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[Quote No.49151] Need Area: Friends > General
"One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant." - Vincent Van Gogh
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[Quote No.49209] Need Area: Friends > General
"Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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