"Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life."

67 quotes

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Education

1895–1986

"What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable."

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

"I just want you to know I’m not a pedophile. … Maybe the only thing worse than being called a pedophile is being called a hedge fund manager."

"You are the strongest and the others keep their distance. It is no longer necessary to win victories over them."

"The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood."

"And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity."

82 quotes

🇮🇳Gopi Krishna (yogi)

Education

1903–1984

"There is no way to find this out, No way to wake up from the dream, No method to remove the doubt, Save knowledge of the State Supreme."

"Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery — what it all means…"

"Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right."

14 quotes

🇺🇸George M. Fredrickson

"Revilo Oliver site maintained by Kevin Alfred Strom"

"Make your entire life an expression of your faith and love for your teacher – this is real dwelling with the Guru."

"Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John, and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different."

"A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders."

"I was, I am and will remain the Russian, the son of the Motherland. Her life first of all I will be interested in. I will live with her interests. With her’s dignity I will strengthen mine."

"A second dimension of stratification in modern societies is the status order. The term status as used in this study refers to the differentiation-of-prestige and deference among individuals and groups in society."

"Dr. Peter effectively destroys examples of seeming exceptions and is rather convincing that his principle is ubiquitous."

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

"What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars."

"The natural evolution of American politics has resulted in the gross engulfment of the American polity by the military industrial complex."

"When we valorize ignorance and debase reason, we diminish man and the humanity that dwells within him, to bum an old fashioned phrase from Kant."

"Putin must be stopped. And sometimes only guns can stop guns."

"Both Herodotus and Thycidides describe the Macedonians as foreigners, a distinct people lying outside the frontiers of the Greek-city states."

"Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens."

17 quotes

🇺🇸James E. McWilliams

"Atheism may be, in some cases, just verbal behavior masking personal feelings that may be very different, perhaps even deeply religious."

"The masses of the people could not be held back from Nazism, so powerful was its appeal, and this same priest, who would not leave his people, went with them to Nazism, too."

"Remarks by Richard Smalley at 2005 Alumni Banquet, Hope College."

3 quotes

🇬🇧Stephen Williams (archeologist)

Education

1837–1899

"Why study this fringe area …? If one considers it worthless, lacking in veracity, won't discussing it give it more credibility than it deserves? If we ignore it, perhaps it will go away."

"The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator."

21 quotes

🇺🇸Gerardine DeSanctis

Christian fundamentalism

b. 1953

"If I were king or president... of a section of, say, America, I would want to pattern everything based on God's word, because God's law is perfect."

"Climate Change Science and Policy by, Island Press, 2009"

"Alan M. MacEachren, Director, GeoVISTA Center, The Pennsylvania State University"

"A key factor in was the Iranians’ refusal to accept the western reduction of religion to individual faith, which would have enabled an easier imposition of a global capitalist political economy."

13 quotes

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