"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"

-- Joseph Stalin

#Gun Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Self Defense Quotes

“When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied”
“The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.”
“A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.”
“Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.”
“The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.”
“Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.”

Source : Ernst Haeckel, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1906). “The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester”
“It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitlerâ€™s Germany, Stalinâ€™s Russia, and Bushâ€™s America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that.”
“I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.”

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