Homestead Hippie

"The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviours, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them humanity would lose its way in the dark." -Plato

"If you compare the City to the Forest, you may begin to wonder why it's man who goes around classifying himself as The Superior Animal." - The Tao of Pooh

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance." - Woodrow Wilson

"If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war." - Senior Pentagon official, explaining why the U.S. military censored footage of Iraqi soldiers sliced in two by U.S. helicopter fire.

"When you arise in the morning give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself." - Tecumseh

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." -- Julius Caesar

"We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen." - Eugene O'Neill

"Patriotism is the conviction that your country is better than all the others because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, can never bring about a reform." - Susan B. Anthony

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"Religion has a healing side, but it also has a killing side. In the opening chapter of Genesis - the founding .. of three great faiths - the first murder rises from a religious act. You know the story: Adam and Eve become the first parents to discover what it means to raise Cain. God plays favorites and chooses Abel's offering over Cain. Cain is so jealous he strikes out at his brother and kills him. Sibling rivalry for God's favor leads to violence and ends in death." - Bill Moyers

"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going a long with it ever since."- Charles de Lint, "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night"

"There's no use trying. One can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice. ... Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."- Alice in Wonderland