Sayings Or Quotes Of The Day.....let's Hear Yours.....

You snooze, you lose.

 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that.--
Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Work hard, play hard. (EZG)

 

Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right.-- Henry Ford

 

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on. ~ John F. Kennedy


An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~ Mahatma Gandhi


The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ~ Martin Luther King


“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” ~ Abraham Lincoln


If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ~ Desmond Tutu


Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ~ Thomas Merton

 

when a baby enters the world they are worthy of love without having to do or say anything or to prove themselves in one way or another

we are all babies no matter what age when it comes to life

 

A life lived in fear, is a life half lived.

 

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts—the less you know the hotter you get. ~ Bertrand Russell


It is a great proof of wisdom to remain clear-sighted during paroxysms of rage. Every excess of passion is a digression from rational conduct. ~ Baltacar Gracian


A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. ~ Thomas Aquinas


Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. ~ Brian Eno

 

“The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. ~ Thomas Jefferson


“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King


In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ~ Dwight Eisenhower


It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control. ~ Ron Paul


Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower. ~ Frank Zappa


No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power that is in Washington, to billionaires and lobbyist, the military industrial complex, all of this money and power, you can`t do it. You need a mass movement of American who are looking in congress and we say directly.
Bernie Sanders


Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. ~ Dwight Eisenhower

 

In a capitalist society the mass media are capitalist institutions. The fact that these institutions reflect the ideology of dominant economic interests is hardly surprising. ~ Noam Chomsky


“In actual fact it would seem that during the Cold War, if not during World War II, this country has become frankly a warfare state built on affluence, a power structure in which the interests of big business, the obsessions of the military, and the phobias of political extremists both dominate and dictate our national policy.

It also seems that the people of the country are by and large reduced to passivity, confusion, resentment, frustration, thoughtlessness and ignorance, so that they blindly follow any line that is unraveled for them by the mass media.” ~ Thomas Merton, Cold War Letters


“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ~ Malcolm X


The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.~ Malcolm X


He who controls the media controls the minds of the public. ~ Noam Chomsky,


“Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly.” ~ Noam Chomsky


“Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.” ~ General Douglas MacArthur


The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business. ~ Henry Rollins


“War is like a vacuum cleaner that sucks tax dollars out of your pocket and funnels the money directly into the pockets of the robber barons who own the weapons factories.” ~ Oliver Markus Malloy


“It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.”
~ Noam Chomsky

 

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!

 

I never lose.....i either win or learn..

Mzzls

 

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not failure, that is life." -Jean-Luc Picard, "Star Trek: The Next Generation"

 

You don't always know where you stand till you know that you won't run away