Quotes of the Centuries

Below are quotes, sayings or excerpts which you may or may not derive interest and wisdom from. Indulge...

'The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God!'
-Apollon Maykov.

'If the truth shall kill them, let them die.'
-Immanuel Kant.

'Perhaps we are only forerunners. Twenty or even a hundred years may pass before the National Socialist idea is victorious; those who believe in the ideal today may die; but what is a man in the development of a people, of mankind?'
-Adolf Hitler.

'The First Death: The physical body ceases to function.

The Second Death: The body is buried or cremated, marking the end of physical presence.

The Third Death: The moment someone speaks your name for the last time, signifying the loss of memory and legacy.'

-David Eagleman's 2010 book, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlive.

'Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.'
-Norman Cousins.

'It is natural to think that the god of the Hebrews was not the begetter of the whole universe with lordship over the whole, but rather, as I said before, that he is confined within limits, and that since his empire has bounds we must conceive of him as only one among the crowd of other gods.'
-Emperor Julian, Against the Galileans .

'Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is precisely what our force is. Gentile masonry blindly serves as a screen for us and our objects, but the plan of action of our force, even its very abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery.'
-The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, Protocol 4.

'Ein deutsches Mädschen!
Deutschland wird alles Leid ertragen und eine neue welt schaffen Sagte
Maria Schultz am 12. Februar 1945 In Erwartung des Todesurteils.'

A German girl!
Germany will endure all suffering and create a new world.
Said Maria Schultz [BDM-Führerin] on February 12, 1945, while awaiting her death sentence. Maria lived in Monschau, near Aachen.
-This poster was made after the Allies had occupied parts of Germany. To resist their murderous tyranny was usually death. Maria was 17 years old.

'The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.'
-Herodotus.

'Je härter die Zeit,
desto fester unser Glaube an den Sieg,
um so fanatischer unser Kampf!'

(The harder the times,
the stronger our belief in victory,
the more fanatical our fight!'
-Rheinische Landeszeitung, December 23, 1944, number 333. A torn newspaper clipping from the last desperate days of WWII.

'We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.'
-William Casey, CIA Director, first staff meeting, 1981.

'Evil destroys even itself.'
-Aristotle.

'The prairie dogs are poisoned, because they eat grass. A thousand of them eat up as much grass in a year as a cow. So if the rancher can kill that many prairie dogs he can run one more head of cattle, make a little more money. When he looks at a prairie dog he sees only a green frog skin [money] getting away from him.

For the white man each blade of grass or spring of water has a price tag on it. And that is the trouble, because look what happens. The bobcats and coyotes which used to feed on prairie dogs now have to go after a stray lamb or a crippled calf. A rancher calls the pest-control officer to kill these animals. This man shoots some rabbits and puts them out as bait with a piece of wood stuck in them. That stick has an explosive charge which shoots some cyanide into the mouth of the coyote who tugs at it. The officer has been trained to be careful. He puts a printed warning on each stick reading, "Danger, Explosive, Poison!" The trouble is that our dogs can't read, and some of our children can't either.

And the prairie becomes a thing without life -- no more prairie dogs, no more badgers, foxes, coyotes. The big birds of prey used to feed on prairie dogs too. So you hardly see an eagle these days. The bald eagle is your symbol. You see him on your money, but your money is killing him. When a people start killing off their own symbols they are in a bad way.

The Sioux have a name for white men. They call them wasicum -- fat-takers. It is a good name, because you have taken the fat of the land. But it does not seem to have agreed with you. Right now you don't look so healthy -- overweight, yes, but not healthy. Americans are bred like stuffed geese -- to be consumers, not human beings. The moment they stop consuming and buying, this frog-skin world has no more use for them. They have become frogs themselves...

You, Richard, are an artist. That's one reason we get along well. Artists are the Indians of the white world. They are called dreamers who live in the clouds... people who don't want to face "reality". They say the same things about Indians. How the hell do these frog-skin people know what reality is? The world in which you paint a picture in your mind, a picture which shows things different from what your eyes see, that is the world from which I get my visions. I tell you this is the real world, not the Green Frog Skin World. That's only a bad dream, a streamlined, smog-filled nightmare.'
-John (Fire) Lame Deer (1903–1976), Lakota medicine man, pgs 32-33, Lame Deer - Seeker of Visions and Richard Erdoes, (c) 1972.