Quotes on humor and truth

Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert G Ingersoll

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Pierre Bayle

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
Joshua Liebman

“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People." Eugene Debs

“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”
― Oscar Wilde

fudgemeister wrote:

“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People." Eugene Debs

So true... 

“Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

fudgemeister wrote:

“Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

How true.... 

“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.”
Soren Kierkegaard

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
Ma Jian

“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
William E. Gladstone quote

What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who show tolerance......will receive tolerance in return. Fudgemeister

fudgemeister wrote:

Those who show tolerance......will receive tolerance in return.   Fudgemeister

Good one Fudge..

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“Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.”

Eknath Easwaran

“The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves to normalcy, they are proud if they are able to follow in auspicious footsteps set before them, they take pride in always coloring inside the lines and they feel secure if they belong to a batch of others who are like them. Now, if familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth and leave your own handprints on the skies, if you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to identify with, then you must be ready for adversity. If you are something extraordinary, you are going to always shock others and while they go about existing in their mundaneness which they call success, you're going to be flying around crazy in their skies and that scares them. People are afraid of change, afraid of being different, afraid of doing things and thinking things that aren't a part of their checkerboard game of a life. They only know the pieces and the moves in their games, and that's it. You're always going to find them in the place that you think you're going to find them in, and every time they think about you, you're going to give them a heart attack.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool?

You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.”
― Temple Grandin, The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's

“On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

Ah,

Laughter The sound is Catching
Invigorating Uplifting Mending

Laughter The soul sings
And brings healing to the Human spirit (CSH)

          

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While you live, shine
have no grief at all
life exists only for a short while
and time demands its toll.

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“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” - Franklin Roosevelt

ER: Isn't that Fudge just grand?
FDR: A capital fellow, that fudge!

Winter blues
What darkness brings
The light absorbs and cradles
The spring breeze
I wish now
In dark days of winter
(Whisper)

  

Louise Erdrich
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.

              

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever
Nadine Gordimer

"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race."
--Charles Bradlaugh

"You don't get the vote if you don't pay a dollar in taxes. But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars, you get a million votes. How's that?"  Tom Perkins (Venture capitalist worth $8 billion)