Quotes on humor and truth

fudgemeister wrote:

"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)

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In other word, one's rights are based on one's wealth. Yeah, that sounds about right, Tom!!    

WAMcKinley wrote:

fudgemeister wrote:

"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)

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  In other word, one's rights are based on one's wealth.   Yeah, that sounds about right, Tom!!      

The worst thing is that that is precisely what many people [1%] really want to believe.
Apparently there is a wonderful movie on at the moment called "Occupy Love"

The "entitled" are more entitled than the rest of us.

We won't always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What's important is that you do care and you act.
Author: Charlotte Lunsford

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Sacred text: DHAMMAPADA,

there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others
Author: Karen Armstrong

      

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
William James

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Author: Confucius

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.
Author: John Leonard, critic (1939-2008)

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
Author: Rudyard Kipling

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be. -
Author: Mahatma Gandhi

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
― Desmond Tutu

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ~Ralph W. Sockman

If you simply try to "do unto other as you would like them to do unto you" then you could wind up doing things to others they might not enjoy as much as you do. . . . An even more "finely tuned" rule might be what some call "The Platinum Rule," namely, "Do Unto Others as They Would Have You Do Unto Them." In other words, take time to learn about your neighbor's tastes, their mood, their nature, and their temperment, before you start "doing" things "unto them." Treat others the way they want to be treated.
Author: Edward Babinski

All life in this universe is governed by certain clearly defined laws. People call them by different names - The Law of Cause and Effect, Karma, Newtons Third Law, etc. These very laws can be used as proof for both sides of the argument, of whether God exists or not. So, the only thing we all ever really need to do in life is to study these laws as proof of our innermost beliefs, whatever they might be.
Author: Unknown

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke

fudgemeister wrote:

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke

Very good quote....  

Solon--
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Learning to read between the lines is probably the least advocated and most important social skill there is.
Author: Unknown

religion must be the cause of unity, harmony and agreement among mankind. If it be the cause of discourd and hostility, if it leads to separation and creates conflict, the absence of religion would be preferable in the world...
Sacred text: Baha'i World Faith pgs 245-248

It's a mistake to surround yourselfonly with people just like you.Throw off that worn comforter --and replace it with a crazy quilt of different and imaginative people.Then watch the ideas erupt!
Author: Betty Bend

whisper wrote:

It's a mistake to surround yourselfonly with people just like you.Throw off that worn comforter --and replace it with a crazy quilt of different and imaginative people.Then watch the ideas erupt!
Author: Betty Bend

           

Now that is a quilt I like to surround myself with. Thank you Fudge...

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.
Author: Richard Hofstadter, historian (1916-1970)

Hindu Belief in a (sarcastic) nutshell? __ Life on earth is specially reserved for the Ignorant and Arrogant only. And only the ones who have the courage to cling on to this deadly duo of Ignorance and Arrogance are rewarded with another chance to enjoy yet another death-birth cycle on this earth. Anyone daring to lose those two special qualities, are kicked out of this cycle (moksha). Every man to himself as the choice is his and his only.
Author: Unknown

No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.
Author: Robert A. Burton

If a person, whether your friend or not, fails in his attempt and your heart is wide enough to clap at his effort, only then you have a human heart in the real sense. Many people feel happy at others' failure, out of jealousy.
Author: Khurshid Alam

“I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

“Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.”
― Walter Kirn

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"In the presence of a man or woman in whom all hostility has died, others cannot be hostile.
In the presence of a man or woman in whom all fear has died, no one can be afraid."

Eknath Easwaran

tonnie_rocca wrote:

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"In the presence of a man or woman in whom all hostility has died, others cannot be hostile.
In the presence of a man or woman in whom all fear has died, no one can be afraid."

Eknath Easwaran

Yes, so true....  

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington