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"A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." – Dresden James
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo Galilei
“The majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in the truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed." Harold Pinter
“The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth... We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." John Swinton, 1880 in a speech given for the New York Times.
I have watched for years as mankind has come to believe in any lie before they will ponder and accept even the simplest of truths" Karl Schwarz
“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.” ~ G.I. Gurdjieff
“We (Jews) have erred, my friend; we have most grievously erred. And if there was truth in our error 3,000, 2,000, nay, 100 years ago, there is now nothing but falseness and madness... a madness that will produce an even greater misery and an even wider anarchy. I confess it to you, openly and sincerely, and with a sorrow whose depth and pain an ancient Psalmist, and only he, could moan into this burning universe of ours. . . We who have posed as the saviours of the world; we who have even boasted of having given it "the" Saviour; we are today nothing else but the world's seducers, its destroyers, its incendiaries, its executioners. We who have promised to lead you to a new Heaven, we have finally succeeded in leading you into a new Hell. . . There has been no progress, least of all moral progress. . . And it is just our Morality, which has prohibited all real progress, and -- what is worse -- which even stands in the way of every future and natural reconstruction in this ruined world of ours. . . I look at this world, and I shudder at its ghastliness; I shudder all the more as I know the spiritual authors of all this ghastliness. . ." Dr. Oscar Levy,
"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within." Cicero
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we have been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the Bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The Bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge-even to ourselves-that we've been so credulous." Carl Sagan
“The World Struggle is NOT political or economic. Rather, it is RELIGIOUS and THEOLOGICAL. It is either God or atheism.” - U.S. 5 Star General Douglas MacArthur to visiting Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen in Allied Occupied Japan
"That the depravity of man is at once the most empirical verifiable reality, and at the same time the most intellectual resistant fact." Malcolm Muggeridge
"We have penetrated into the mysteries of the atom and have utterly failed to grasp the Sermon on the Mount.” - U.S. Army General Omar Bradley to the 1947 U.S. Army Graduating Class of West Point
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell
"It is written: Man does not live on bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God" Matthew 4:4
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. What, in its essence, is Fascism, but ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." President Ronald Reagan
"The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt , who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title." Anonymous
“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.” Alan Greenspan in a 1966 Essay entitled Gold and Economic Freedom
“Rising prices of precious metals and other commodities are an indication of a very early stage of an endeavor to move away from paper currencies…What is fascinating is the extent to which gold still holds reign over the financial system as the ultimate source of payment.” Alan Greenspan September 2009
"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within." Cicero
“This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of the light because their deeds were evil.” {John 3:19}
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Winston Churchill
"Why hast though come to hinder us?...We are working not with Thee but with him {Satan}...We took from him what Thou didst reject with scorn, the last gift he offered Thee, showing you all the kingdoms of the earth. We took from him Rome and the sword of Caesar, and proclaimed ourselves sole rulers of the earth...We shall triumph and shall be Caesar's, and then we shall plan the universal happiness of man... Hadst though accepted the last counsel of the mighty spirit {Satan}, Thou wouldst have accomplished all that man seeks on earth -that is, someone to worship...Who can rule men if not he who holds their conscience and their bread in their hands?" Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Some nations place the sovereignty of their land in the hands of a single ruler {monarchy}, some in the hands of a number of rulers {oligarchy}, and some in the hands of the people {democracy}. Moses our Teacher taught us to place our faith in none of these forms of government. He taught us to obey the rule of God, for to God alone did he accord kingship and power. He commanded the people always to raise their eyes to God, for He is the source of all good for mankind in general and for each person in particular and in Him will people find help when they pray to Him in their time of suffering, for no act is hidden from His understanding and no hidden thought of man's heart is hidden from Him." Josephus Flavius, Contra Apion, Volume One
"The word of the Lord came to me, Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its men and their animals, even if these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign Lord." Ezekiel 14:12-14
"See the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. The anger of the Lord will not turn back until He fully accomplishes the purposes of His heart. In days to come you will fully understand this. Jeremiah 23:19-20
"Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down and violent winds will burst forth...In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury." Ezekiel 13:8-13
"The Lord will cause men to hear His majestic voice and will make them see His arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail." Isaiah 30:30
"...He brings the clouds to punish men or to water His earth and show His love." Job 37:5-13
"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle" Job 38:22
"There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from the heaven." Luke 21:11
"...whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth. So God said to Noah, this is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth." Genesis 9:8-17
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