Quotes
Authors
Robert Thurman

"Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks."

-- Robert Thurman

#Military Quotes #Independent Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself”
“Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and the possibility of executing innocent people is both inherently wrong and morally reprehensible; (2) My personal experience and crime data show the death penalty does not reduce crime; and (3) The death penalty wastes precious resources that could be best used to fight crime and solve thousands of unsolved homicides languishing in filing cabinets in understaffed police departments across the state.”
“Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.”
“Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health.”
“I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.”
“It feels better to love than to hate.”
“Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.”

Source : Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.55, The Overlook Press
“If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle”

Source : John Adams, Benjamin Rush (1892). “Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]”

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