Comments on: Five Thought-Provoking Quotes I Like Lately http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/2008/11/21/five-thought-provoking-quotes-i-like-lately/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:28:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sek http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/2008/11/21/five-thought-provoking-quotes-i-like-lately/comment-page-1/#comment-236425 Sek Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:26:40 +0000 http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/?p=6649#comment-236425 five that are interesting The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded states of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of men greater than himself. -John Stuart Mill What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? -Mahatma Gandhi Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. -Bertrand Russell You must honor and obey and reconciliate your country when angry...you must either persuade her, or do whatever she commands; you must bear in quiet anything she bids you to bear, be it strips or prison; or if she leads you to war, to be wounded or to die, this you must do, and it is just that this should be so. -Plato (Crito) five that are interesting

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded states of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of men greater than himself. -John Stuart Mill

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? -Mahatma Gandhi

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. -Bertrand Russell

You must honor and obey and reconciliate your country when angry…you must either persuade her, or do whatever she commands; you must bear in quiet anything she bids you to bear, be it strips or prison; or if she leads you to war, to be wounded or to die, this you must do, and it is just that this should be so. -Plato (Crito)

]]> By: Charlie Stout http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/2008/11/21/five-thought-provoking-quotes-i-like-lately/comment-page-1/#comment-205478 Charlie Stout Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:48:54 +0000 http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/?p=6649#comment-205478 Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable. Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.

]]> By: David Drennon http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/2008/11/21/five-thought-provoking-quotes-i-like-lately/comment-page-1/#comment-203546 David Drennon Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:27:19 +0000 http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/?p=6649#comment-203546 "I don't get to choose how I hurt or how much I hurt. Reconciling that is one of the hardest things I will ever do." I always enjoy that one. “I don’t get to choose how I hurt or how much I hurt. Reconciling that is one of the hardest things I will ever do.”

I always enjoy that one.

]]> By: Jared Murray http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/2008/11/21/five-thought-provoking-quotes-i-like-lately/comment-page-1/#comment-203473 Jared Murray Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:46:20 +0000 http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/?p=6649#comment-203473 "We do not possess the right to exercise compassion on whom we choose, but the ability to choose to be compassionate…" I've enjoyed that quote for some time now. “We do not possess the right to exercise compassion on whom we choose, but the ability to choose to be compassionate…”

I’ve enjoyed that quote for some time now.

]]> By: Joshua http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/2008/11/21/five-thought-provoking-quotes-i-like-lately/comment-page-1/#comment-203472 Joshua Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:34:51 +0000 http://joshuablankenship.com/blog/?p=6649#comment-203472 Don't feel obliged to stick to the 5-formula, but if you have a quote that's been provoking thought lately, I'd love to hear it. Don’t feel obliged to stick to the 5-formula, but if you have a quote that’s been provoking thought lately, I’d love to hear it.

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