Relevant Random Quotes?

2 min clip from our favorite British philosopher & other titles. (sarc)
Bertrand Russell - Message To Future Generations (1959)

originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow

Ha, synchronicity...I was about to post a Sowell quote when I seen your post..

Ha lots of that going around lately amigo and that's a great quote you posted right there.

Remember you also put me onto this (awesome) one from Thomas.

• "How can anyone read history and still trust politicians?"

Thomas Sowell

Really do think he's one top chap.

AP news

a reply to: XtheMadnessNow

That last one's a corker mate - got to love Mencken!

Did like these two.

• "Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.

Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."

Robert A Heinlein.

And.

a reply to: karl 12

JFK speech (last one, I think) said similar regards to secrecy & tyranny.

Voltaire hits blunt & hard to the heart. Pow!


Makes ya want to unplug and go outside and take in the view.

originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
a reply to: karl 12

JFK speech (last one, I think) said similar regards to secrecy & tyranny.

Voltaire hits blunt & hard to the heart. Pow!

Makes ya want to unplug and go outside and take in the view.

Ha hats off to Voltaire my friend and looks like Plato knew the score as well.


Had to check this one was real but apparently it is.

a reply to: karl 12

I had to double check that Plato quote too. WoW!

"The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same."
― Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

"The heroes of declining nations are always the same—the athlete, the singer or the actor. The word ‘celebrity’ today is used to designate a comedian or a football player, not a statesman, a general, or a literary genius."
...
"Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease,
resulting from too long a period of wealth
and power, producing cynicism, decline of
religion, pessimism and frivolity. The
citizens of such a nation will no longer make
an effort to save themselves, because they
are not convinced that anything in life is
worth saving."
― Lieutenant-General Sir John Glubb, The Fate of Empires (1978) PDF

originally posted by: karl 12
a reply to: XtheMadnessNow

About that Voltaire quote, I recently ran across this write-up...

X-FILES PROPHECIES?
VIRUS PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING
When Fiction Meets Reality

...which you're probably familar with this scene...

Why this Assessment of the X-Files? It is because the Biblical Prophecies appears to parallel this sort of X-Files Genre and Conspiracy Narrative. Thus, the X-Files ‘Prophecies’ as one calls the Evaluation of the Conspiratorial Narrative that will be based on the Biblical Perspective. Why this might be different than most, is that one has not seen an entire Episode, in all its run. Why not?
...
So, the X-Files? One thinks that a person then, not having seen the Series, might provide a unique Perspective. But in order for one to do that, one had to Binge-Watch many of the online Summary Videos that broke down the Timeline. The following is one’s Assessment, to corroborate that the X-Files did in fact use Predictive Programming in conditioning the Masses for a coming Universal Virus and Vaccine tied to ‘Aliens’ and Disclosure. One had flippantly mentioned about the X-Files, ‘Did I Miss Anything’. Oh my Goodness. So, this topic had one go into the Rabbit Hole, retro-actively into the X-Files Genre. As one saw and listened to the Plot and Prevailing Narrative of the Show, one is now convinced that it is beyond Predictive Programming.

PostScripts Eschatological Studies

Think I'm going to rewatch that first episode (Season 11), again.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1936), “The Crack-Up” essay from Esquire magazine.

originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1936), “The Crack-Up” essay from Esquire magazine.

I think that one is the winner of the thread mate.

Excellent quote.

James Corbett Interview – The Budding Biosecurity State & Its Technocratic Culmination

a reply to: XtheMadnessNow

Excellent PKD quote mate and thanks very much for the link - am off to watch!

"I don't need no stinkin' parade!" - J.F. Kennedy

"In order to survive, one must learn to adapt" - T. Rex

Dumbest Political Quotes of All Time

"You are the carbon they want to reduce."

originally posted by: Havamal
All good. Though, they be seen through a lense that gets them to a point of light they like. We all see what we like.

Sorry folks, you just don't see things beyond what you want to see.

All my good dogs go to heaven.ae te

Mate second post and understand your positive machinations.
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