ContextPerception

Wise Old Man

From my mentors/sages.

Learn from yesterday  ----  live for today  ----  dream for tomorrow

It is much easier to bring your desires within your means than to raise your means to meet your desires.         --- one is only a mental exercise and can lead to contentment in life

Avaritia facit bardus!     ---- greed makes stupidity

So much to learn ---- so little time!

Legality is the lowest level of behavior accepted by society.  ---- why are so many people willing to live at or below that level?  ---- why so much bottom fishing?  ---- why the 'race to the bottom'?

Quotes

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."                    - President Eisenhower

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has."  -Margaret Mead

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work,
pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without
morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics
without principle. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.  - Louis Brandeis

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has."  -Margaret Mead

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work,
pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without
morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics
without principle. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.  - Louis Brandeis

Today in the USA

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the
argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.        -William Pitt, British prime-minister (1759-1806)

Do what is right not only to respectable citizens, but especially to the disrespectable ones as well; be at peace not only with those who are peaceable, but especially with those who do not wish to let us live in peace.      - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."     - Voltaire, philosopher