Select Quotes for 2/14/15

Thanks to Richard Windsor for this gem…

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” – Richard Feynman

Thanks to Kristie Bruce for this one…

“Most people prefer to believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which he lives is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all.”

~ Michael Rivero

Thanks to Dave Dix for this one…

The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.

—Nisargadatta Maharaj

Thanks to Catherine Austin Fitts for this one…

‘The technological era involves the gradual transition to a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain uptodate and complete files containing even the most personal information about each and every one in the population’.

~Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997

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