The war you don’t see. The persecution and defamation of the truth. Today.
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George Orwell (via littlehouseofhappy) |
The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very loud, and it’s fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, “Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?’ And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, ‘Hey, don’t worry; don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.’ And we … kill those people.
‘Shut him up! I’ve got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.’ It’s just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn’t matter, because it’s just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.
| — | Bill Hicks (via outshiningvoid) |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via littlehouseofhappy) |
Parfois les gens ne veulent pas entendre la vérité parce qu’ils ne veulent pas que leurs illusions soient détruites
- Friedrich Nietzsche -
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” ~Nietzsche
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Plato (via asylumseaker) |

STAND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT EVEN IF YOU STAND ALONE
| — | Paulo Coelho |
| — | Commonly attributed to WikiLeaks |
A case where the misattributed quotes improve on the original. Here are the two misattributions:
Contempt prior to investigation is what enslaves a mind to Ignorance. ~Albert Einstein
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance — that principle is contempt prior to investigation. ~Herbert Spencer
And, now, here’s the original:
The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. contempt prior to investigation. ~William Paley



