Quotes of the Centuries

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

'Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.'
-John Maynard Keynes

'Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.'
-from the poem 'Nothing Gold Can Stay', by Robert Frost

'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.'
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

'Sleep is good, death is better;
but of course, the best thing
would to have never been born at all.'
-Heinrich Heine

'The vaccine was not brought in for Covid. Covid was brought in for the vaccine. Once you realize that, everything else makes sense.'
-Dr. Reiner Fuellmich

'The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control... Do I mean conspiracy?
Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.'
-Larry P. McDonald, U.S. Congressman, 1976. McDonald was killed on September 1, 1983 in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets. From 'Introduction' to the Rockefeller File, by Gary Allen, 1975

'From the four elements a being was produced, whose body produced the constituents of the universe, and from whose decomposing corpse came worms, which eventually became human beings.'
-Christianity Before Christ, Chinese creation myth, pg. 22, by John G. Jackson, 1985

'But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?'
-Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

'War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide for yourself.'
-Benjamin Franklin.

'I sometimes made huge mistakes. But what actually is a mistake in politics? And when I look back, I have only one sentiment: an enormous regret. Regret that we did not succeed, that we were not able to create this European world which would be the master of the universe for all time, which made the white race the first race, with the great mastery of the spirit. And when we see what there is on the other side, what 30 years of the others’ victory has given, this anarchy in the world, this rout of the white world, this desertion throughout the universe; when we see in our own countries the decay of morals, the fall of the fatherland, the fall of the family, the fall of social order; when we see this appetite for material goods which has replaced the great flame of the ideal which animated us, well then, truly, between the two we chose the right side. The small, miserable Europe of today, of this impoverished Common Market, cannot give happiness to men. Consumer society poisons humanity rather than elevating it. So, for our part, we dreamed of something great, and we have only one desire, that this spirit be reborn. And with all my might, up to the last moment of my existence, I will fight for this. So that what was our struggle and our martyrdom, will one day be the resurrection.'
-Léon Degrelle

'Hell is truth seen too late.'
-Thomas Hobbes.

'About the painted temple, peacocks flew, the blue doves cooed from every well, far off the village drums beat for some marriage-feast; all things spoke peace and plenty and the Prince saw and rejoiced. But, looking deep, he saw the thorns which grow upon this rose of life: How the swart peasant sweated for his wage, toiling for leave to live; and how he urged the great-eyed oxen through the flaming hours, goading their velvet flanks: then marked he, too, how lizard fed on ant, and snake on him, and kite on both; and how the fish-hawk robbed the fish-tiger of that which it had seized; the shrike chasing the bulbul, which did chase the jeweled butterlflies; till everywhere each slew a slayer and in turn was slain, life living upon death. So the fair show veiled one vast, savage, grim conspiracy of mutual murder, from the worm of man, who himself killed his fellow.'
-The Light of Asia, Sir Edwin Arnold, pgs. 28-29, (c)1879.
This was speaking of the Buddha, who went out into the world to teach and found much evil everywhere.

'The primary reason why the individual citizens of a country create a political structure is a subconcious wish or desire to perpetuate their own dependency relationship of childhood.
Simply put, they want a human god to eliminate all risk from their life, pat them on the head, kiss their bruises, put a chicken on every dinner table, clothe their bodies, tuck them into bed at night, and tell them that everything will be alright when they wake up in the morning.
This public demand is incredible, so the human god, the politician, meets incredibility with incredibility by promsing the world and delivering nothing. So who is the bigger liar? The public? Or the 'godfather'?
This public behavior is surrender born of fear, laziness, and expediency. It is the basis of the welfare state as a strategic weapon, useful against a disgusting public.'
-Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, published by The Booktree, (c)2018 edition, pg. 50-51.

'Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.'
-Theodore Dalrymple.

'In the whole vast domain of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom. As soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom, you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die, and how many are killed. But from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly in the most dreadful evidence. A power of violence at once hidden and palpable … has in each species appointed a certain number of animals to devour the others. Thus there are insects of prey, reptiles of prey, birds of prey, fishes of prey, quadrupeds of prey. There is no instant of time when one creature is not being devoured by another. Over all these numerous races of animals man is placed, and his destructive hand spares nothing that lives. He kills to obtain food and he kills to clothe himself. He kills to adorn himself, he kills in order to attack, and he kills in order to defend himself. He kills to instruct himself and he kills to amuse himself. He kills to kill. Proud and terrible king, he wants everything and nothing resists him.

From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound ... from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child - his table is covered with corpses ... And who in all of this will exterminate him who exterminates all others? Himself. It is man who is charged with the slaughter of man ... So it is accomplished ... the first law of the violent destruction of living creatures. The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.'
-Joseph de Maistre, philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat, from 'St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence'.

'The decay of our culture,
these mounds of contamination of our whole cultural life,
the decomposition of our literature,
the poisoning of our theaters, of our movies,
all the art is now falling for it.

Millions of Germans do not participate any more.
It does not appeal to them any more.
This art was not born from our people.
It is alien to us and will remain alien.
It has nothing to do with the western character and did not come from our soul.
It was imposed on us by our subversive press which has made it palatable.

And parallel to this already the assault against the education of our children's brains.
The tearing out of all the memories of our proud past.
The insult to all our great men and people,
the removal of its memory from the heart and the brain,
and out of our youth and with it a large defilement of our history.

Nothing of what was once great,
nothing of what helped create this great nation,
to make it strong, was spared from these corroding and corrosive attacks.
Everything is demolished starting from the symbols of the past,
from the cockades and flags to the great men of our history.'
-Adolf Hitler, speaking at the Berlin Sportpalast, 1933.

'By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial... Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.'
-Aldous Huxley, 1958.

'The best that man can attain is a heroic life, such as is lived by one who struggles against overwhelming odds in some way and in some affair that will benefit the whole of mankind, and who, in the end, triumphs -- although he obtains a poor reward, or none at all.'
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paraliponena, vol. II, section 172a, 322, ©1974.

' My orders are to fight;
Then if I bleed, or fail,
Or strongly win, what matters it?
God only doth prevail.

The servant craveth naught
Except to serve with might.
I was not told to win or lose, --
My orders are to fight.'
-My Orders, Canadian Poetess Ethelwyn Wetherald.

' If you knew how quickly people would forget about you after your death, you would not seek in your life to please anyone but God.'
-Saint John Chrysostom.

'We are forerunners of a new time, and even if many or all of us should no longer experience it, we will nonetheless be able to say at our end: we have lived and it was beautiful to live and to fight...'
-Alfred Rosenberg.

'palm leaves

at exactly twelve o’clock midnight
1973-74
Los Angeles
it began to rain on the
palm leaves outside my window
the horns and firecrackers
went off
and it thundered.

I’d gone to bed at 9 p.m.
turned out the lights
pulled up the covers –
their gaiety, their happiness
their screams, their paper hats,
their automobiles, their women,
their amateur drunks...

New Year’s Eve always terrifies me

life knows nothing of years.

now the horns have stopped and
the firecrackers and the thunder...
it’s all over in five minutes...
all I hear is the rain
on the palm leaves,
and I think,
I will never understand men,
but I have lived
it through.'
-Charles Bukowski, Burning in Water Drowning in Flame (1974).

'It's not hard to be brave when you're in a room full of cowards.'
-Louis Beam.

'The New American Patriot will be neither left nor right, just a freeman fighting for liberty.
...Soon there will be millions in this country of every political persuasion confronting the police state in streets throughout America.
...Wake up and smell the tear gas. Freedom is calling its sons and daughters.'
-Louis Beam, from a 1999 essay called 'New World Order'