- 30 Jun 2012 10:53
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This could be an interesting subject for discussion, if those responding make a legitimate attempt to select those relevant political/historical quotes which are either praisworthy or represent their general sentiments. It of course helps if those one is attributing their selected quotes to is reasonably recognizable.
"One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next" - Subhas Chandra Bose
"Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam (the truth), shivam (the God), sundaram (the beautiful) - Subhas Chandra Bose
"I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory" - Julius Caesar
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another" - Plato
"That inner Self, as the primeval spirit, eternal, ever effulgent, full and infinite bliss; single, indivisible, whole, and living; shines in everyone as the witnessing awareness. That self in its splendor, shining in the cavity of the heart; This self is neither born nor dies, neither grows nor decays, nor does it suffer any change. When a pot is broken, the space within it is not, and similarly, when the body dies the Self in it remains eternal" - Ramana Maharshi
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.” - Ted Kaczynski
"One day we must go, one night we will descend into the region of mystery. Here, we only come to know ourselves; only in passing are we here on Earth." - Nezahualcoyotl
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. - Ramakrishna
“In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.” - Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.” - Seyyed Hossein Nasr
America ... has created a 'civilization' that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of praxis and productivity; it has put the quest for profit, great industrial production, and mechanical, visible, and quantitative achievements over any other interest. It has generated a soulless greatness of a purely technological and collective nature, lacking any background of transcendence, inner light, and true spirituality. America has [built a society where] man becomes a mere instrument of production and material productivity within a conformist social conglomerate. - Julius Evola
This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will have a subordinate role in a normal human, that beyond this sphere must be differentiated from an order of higher values, political , spiritual and heroic. - Julius Evola
“With the Jews there begins the slave revolt morality, that revolt which has a history of 2,000 years behind it, and which we no longer see, because it has been victorious” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.” - Yukio Mishima
"Miyabi was the cultural essence of the imperial court and the people’s longing for it, but during troubled times, miyabi could even take the form of terrorism. That is to say, the emperor as a cultural concept held out his hand not only to the forces of state power and order but also to the forces of chaos". - Yukio Mishima
"One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next" - Subhas Chandra Bose
"Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam (the truth), shivam (the God), sundaram (the beautiful) - Subhas Chandra Bose
"I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory" - Julius Caesar
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another" - Plato
"That inner Self, as the primeval spirit, eternal, ever effulgent, full and infinite bliss; single, indivisible, whole, and living; shines in everyone as the witnessing awareness. That self in its splendor, shining in the cavity of the heart; This self is neither born nor dies, neither grows nor decays, nor does it suffer any change. When a pot is broken, the space within it is not, and similarly, when the body dies the Self in it remains eternal" - Ramana Maharshi
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.” - Ted Kaczynski
"One day we must go, one night we will descend into the region of mystery. Here, we only come to know ourselves; only in passing are we here on Earth." - Nezahualcoyotl
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. - Ramakrishna
“In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.” - Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.” - Seyyed Hossein Nasr
America ... has created a 'civilization' that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of praxis and productivity; it has put the quest for profit, great industrial production, and mechanical, visible, and quantitative achievements over any other interest. It has generated a soulless greatness of a purely technological and collective nature, lacking any background of transcendence, inner light, and true spirituality. America has [built a society where] man becomes a mere instrument of production and material productivity within a conformist social conglomerate. - Julius Evola
This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will have a subordinate role in a normal human, that beyond this sphere must be differentiated from an order of higher values, political , spiritual and heroic. - Julius Evola
“With the Jews there begins the slave revolt morality, that revolt which has a history of 2,000 years behind it, and which we no longer see, because it has been victorious” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.” - Yukio Mishima
"Miyabi was the cultural essence of the imperial court and the people’s longing for it, but during troubled times, miyabi could even take the form of terrorism. That is to say, the emperor as a cultural concept held out his hand not only to the forces of state power and order but also to the forces of chaos". - Yukio Mishima
"I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work" - President Vladimir Putin
"Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin." - Muammar Qaddafi
"Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin." - Muammar Qaddafi