A
Do we seek knowledge for responsibility of our actions or release from them?
We must have the foresight to see the results of the most trivial of our actions.
It is the responsibility of those who believe and understand to pick up the “slack” for those who do not or will not. We must be responsible for our own actions and the knowledge we each carry. …
At what point do we accept that responsibility that is most unimaginable?
Unfortunately, people and times do not change until they are pushed beyond their limits of tolerance.
… Sometimes, the only thing more frightening than a lie is the truth.
You must honestly ask yourself: Do you want to be part of the problem or part of the solution?
Some set the world aflame. Some extinguish the flames. Sadly, most merely watch their lives about to disappear.
The participants of the spectacle were deafened by their false weeping as they choked on their own apathy.
God cried out.
As man wept with apathy.
B
If we are to improve ourselves, we cannot blindly ignore those with opposing views.
… In exploring those views, we can only improve our views and ourselves.
Disagreement is essential to beliefs. Disagreement finds holes in beliefs, forcing those holes to be filled or those beliefs to be altered for the better. …
We must constantly test our belief systems. Each time our beliefs survive one of our tests; they become stronger and more valid. …
… Too often, to my disappointment, people often mistake my generosity and kindness for weakness, when it’s merely upholding my philosophy.”
Dictating your views, directly or indirectly, voluntary or involuntary, is still dictating your views.
People, who force their ideas upon others, trying to give what they believe to be freedom, sometimes unknowingly destroy different ideas and the very thing that they attempt to create.
When you spill the blood of the innocent, you spill the blood of thousands to come.
… A good and just society does not force its views on its children, but teaches them how to make their own responsible decisions.
The beliefs of yesterday are often the mythologies of tomorrow.
C
Whenever we become afraid or loose faith in our children, the future becomes the same.
We must save it for our children. Often we are the lost ones that have forgotten our souls.
Do we really have choices, or is it an isolation of choice?
We must never forget that our decisions are made from the absence of choice. …
If it were not for thinking outside the norm,
… we would have made no progress in society.
D
Do not fear death; yet do not look for it.
Sometimes the only thing worse than death is life.
Democracy cannot be protected at the expense of civil liberties. Freedom and democracy are based upon civil liberties.
We must always listen to the silent majority, or the collapse of a government is unavoidable.
A democracy is not a democracy when there is favoritism.