Veritas | Quotations | Activity https://veritas.freedino.net/groups/quotations/ Activity feed for the group, Quotations. Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:18:13 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 0947cc8af485f70e90a352409dc54b7e John posted an update in the group Quotations: "If the world is against the truth, then I am against the […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/3119/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:34:44 -0500 “If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world.”
— St. Athanasius of Alexandria

]]> 0 d564f96c6bc7fba080b55f1de86e1ee9 John posted an update in the group Quotations: Quote of the day... When exposing a crime is treated the same […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/3108/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 13:29:05 -0600 Quote of the day…
When exposing a crime is treated the same as committing a crime, you are ruled by criminals.

]]> 0 aacf7e28d84451208d3d409eca33b08f John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Harry, look at me. You're trying to tell me you fucked up […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/3071/ Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:02:14 -0500 “Harry, look at me. You’re trying to tell me you fucked up without sounding stupid, and that’s hard to do.”
— Chili Palmer, Get Shorty

]]> 0 f874b650c6e63435124b99c746b52146 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/3066/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:45:23 -0500 “Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that Democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than Aristocracy or Monarchy. It is not true in fact and no where appears in history. Those…[Read more]

]]> 0 b86c9d8ec10b371cf5be5943f64fd5c1 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/3026/ Tue, 25 May 2021 18:08:18 -0500 “The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”
— Josef Mengele

]]> 0 5bfcaa60b95f65c714a8ae6bc49240a3 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn't […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/3021/ Sat, 22 May 2021 22:48:17 -0500 “Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have.”
— America

]]> 0 38b98270cbd7635c0eff46d26968fae3 John posted an update in the group Quotations: “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they c […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/3017/ Sat, 22 May 2021 12:13:28 -0500 “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
— Tacitus

]]> 0 d63581f5a3b9f3e435262dbc5c3284d0 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." -- Friedrich […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/3014/ Fri, 21 May 2021 02:58:08 -0500 “Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

]]> 0 77845766293b9638153919af3bd61d5f John posted an update in the group Quotations: "That the reigns of good princes have been always most […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2964/ Fri, 07 May 2021 20:03:08 -0500 “That the reigns of good princes have been always most dangerous to the liberties of their people: for when their successors, managing the government with different thoughts, would draw the actions of those good rulers into precedent, and make them the standard of their prerogative, as if what had been done only for the good of the people was a…[Read more]

]]> 0 1988718bb6948c15d40ff15c3ce50800 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2961/ Thu, 06 May 2021 12:34:14 -0500 “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.”

— misattributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler – Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler#Misattributed

The earliest known attribution of this quote was October…[Read more]

]]> 0 cbaa402a54e687d730d8ca82f8481f41 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Never in my whole life did I swear allegiance to him." — W […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2948/ Wed, 05 May 2021 15:38:35 -0500 “Never in my whole life did I swear allegiance to him.”
— William Wallace

]]> 0 76dda27a7443f98c0b30f663ad55fd4d John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Economy is a good servant, but a bad master." -- Russian proverb https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2947/ Tue, 04 May 2021 19:00:59 -0500 “Economy is a good servant, but a bad master.”
— Russian proverb

]]> 0 1333b10020cd26500313a83a821250d2 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Four hostile newspapers are more to fear than a thousand […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2942/ Tue, 04 May 2021 04:25:18 -0500 “Four hostile newspapers are more to fear than a thousand bayonets.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte

]]> 0 d856df809f4eb933a5e145c6378189a1 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "He who knows not another language, knows not his own." — G […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2941/ Mon, 03 May 2021 18:42:18 -0500 “He who knows not another language, knows not his own.”
— Goethe

(“Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.”)

]]> 0 3a356ff0a16f2030b4968e82d4b86eaf John posted an update in the group Quotations: Government Is Like Fire, a Dangerous Servant and a Fearful […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2931/ Fri, 30 Apr 2021 07:23:03 -0500 Government Is Like Fire, a Dangerous Servant and a Fearful Master – Quote Investigator
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/05/26/fire-servant/

]]> 0 1544dec2eaac46a5e3eea5af0f45a6c3 John posted an update in the group Quotations: I try to never use a quote that I cannot cite and/or source. […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2920/ Tue, 20 Apr 2021 01:13:52 -0500 I try to never use a quote that I cannot cite and/or source. Here is one I hear often, but refuse to use myself…
In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act – Quote Investigator
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/truth-revolutionary/

]]> 0 7c53793d1c48d73c92f2dd5ee2ed9b5c John posted an update in the group Quotations: "A coward, whose fears are easily awakened, readily assents […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2915/ Sun, 18 Apr 2021 23:42:30 -0500 “A coward, whose fears are easily awakened, readily assents to every account of danger he meets with; as a person of a sorrowful and melancholy disposition is very credulous of everything, that nourishes his prevailing passion.”
— David Hume

]]> 0 0c56c3715dccb0ab6506c72087880291 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "If there's one thing worse than doing nothing, it's doing […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2912/ Sun, 18 Apr 2021 00:28:42 -0500 “If there’s one thing worse than doing nothing, it’s doing bad and feeling good about it… It’s all about symbolism over substance.”
— Joel Salatin

]]> 0 4f1984512b1bb12d38a747ad3de56458 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "A man's rights rest in three boxes: The ballot box, jury […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2910/ Sat, 17 Apr 2021 22:13:19 -0500 “A man’s rights rest in three boxes: The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.”
— Frederick Douglass, in a speech delivered on 15 November 1867

]]> 1 42b49fede7677de0e08d984840581c9f John posted an update in the group Quotations: "You'll assure me... What good's your assurance when my […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2899/ Tue, 13 Apr 2021 01:31:44 -0500 “You’ll assure me… What good’s your assurance when my veins are filled with your damn juice?”
— John Bernard Books, The Shootist

]]> 0 d1fdacab691bc458cc5bc4c78e799d29 John posted an update in the group Quotations: When government fears the people, there is liberty... […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2861/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 05:47:08 -0600 When government fears the people, there is liberty… (Spurious Quotation) | Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/when-government-fears-people-there-liberty-spurious-quotation

]]> 0 749a3d6f91108470c22c942f295036a4 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2859/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 04:19:04 -0600 “If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
― Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

]]> 1 83f411b4f01d54ce69017fed2ccb89d8 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Religion is not the opiate of the masses; religion is the […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2815/ Sat, 20 Feb 2021 20:42:37 -0600 “Religion is not the opiate of the masses; religion is the placebo of the masses.”
— Dr. Gregory House

]]> 0 75e46f8fcb61bb5c4bf55c84ce418fc3 John posted an update in the group Quotations: “Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in its […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2775/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 16:24:30 -0600 “Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.”
– Potter Stewart

]]> 0 934274f263d9ebf8a357ee4468bb5ddd John posted an update in the group Quotations: "But let the Spirit of all lies with works of dazzling magic […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2770/ Tue, 02 Feb 2021 23:31:36 -0600 “But let the Spirit of all lies with works of dazzling magic blind you. Then absolutely mine, I’ll have and bind you.”
— Mephistopheles
Faust – A play by Goethe (1749-1832)

]]> 0 fe7dc449c8c66e5e94268e27e616b499 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." — Adam Smith https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2706/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 02:43:22 -0600 “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
— Adam Smith

]]> 0 1cab774cfe0fb555b14f212203fe1e40 John posted an update in the group Quotations: “Look! You fools! You’re in danger! Can’t you see? They’ […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2624/ Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:54:57 -0600 “Look! You fools! You’re in danger! Can’t you see? They’re after you! They’re after all of us! Our wives…our children…they’re here already! You’re next!”
— Dr. Miles Bennell, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

]]> 0 bf334a6876b2369ae0ff2f654a84c30b John posted an update in the group Quotations: "They who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them for […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2601/ Wed, 25 Nov 2020 04:57:11 -0600 “They who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them for their blindness.”
— John Milton

]]> 0 9748de75461fc377395fcc61b1e787f7 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2589/ Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:06:05 -0600 “We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.”

]]> 0 b85a43a3ed6e270b8fdab37f74450520 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2555/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:18:43 -0600 “Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.”
— Gen. George S. Patton Jr.

]]> 0 e6f41c457407d814645261493fceb91a John posted an update in the group Quotations: "The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2494/ Thu, 05 Nov 2020 04:30:46 -0600 “The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
— Gustave LeBon, The Crowd

]]> 0 91cdfd73ad45ecf5964161f364003a7f John posted an update in the group Quotations: You cannot wake someone up who is pretending to be asleep. https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2488/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 23:30:52 -0600 You cannot wake someone up who is pretending to be asleep.

]]> 0 2b8b0dfe57dc9d3d908f611147d6148f John posted an update in the group Quotations: "What’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, c […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2475/ Thu, 29 Oct 2020 20:12:58 -0500 “What’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It’s — it was like — we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.”
— Mike Pompeo, Texas A&M University – 15 April 2019

]]> 1 e1975d2a81aa5c8fd6722988630196ea John posted an update in the group Quotations: "By a continuing process of inflation, governments can […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2469/ Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:08:19 -0500 “By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does…[Read more]

]]> 0 b30ad8e6fbf62eb5711325cec53356e9 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2461/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 13:43:54 -0500 “We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1e986fe175d1468c2981e6075bdb8d0 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2438/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 03:15:07 -0500 “Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it, even if we were sure that they existed. It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended. When bad intentions are boldly avowed, the people will promptly take…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3ad8557b6a5b0d76554a92a478da87a John posted an update in the group Quotations: "The past is a lighthouse, not a port." -- Russian […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2244/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 13:02:12 -0500 “The past is a lighthouse, not a port.”
— Russian proverb

“прошлое — это маяк, а не порт.”

]]> 0 54ff24b40d51408c33c5a57aa651133c John posted an update in the group Quotations: “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am a […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2145/ Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:04:13 -0500 “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
— Alexander the Great

]]> 0 b5abba3821b285991f42e1f0e373ca65 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2144/ Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:00:24 -0500 “We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
— Edward Bernays

]]> 0 193086adec8e4c28bfb2e615c4328ce2 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "History is a pack of lies about events that never happened, […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/2100/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:00:57 -0500 “History is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren’t there.”
— attributed to George Santayana

(probably misattributed, but still a good quote; try again some time to source)

]]> 0 d8d97f2fa3c4a4dd4bf2a18483094a34 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/1942/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:18:42 -0500 “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
— Thomas Sowell

]]> 0 99fbda87dd50e7e3a14812653611b6ab John posted an update in the group Quotations: “Everybody has asked the question… ‘What shall we do with […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/1927/ Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:29:48 -0500 “Everybody has asked the question… ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 afba4108a601d8d22bbdcf9255d06f84 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/1925/ Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:27:04 -0500 “One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims.”
— Thomas Sowell

]]> 0 506c88476af5969450f2308cc7615dc1 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/1884/ Fri, 31 Jul 2020 09:35:25 -0500 “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without…[Read more]

]]> 0 d559b059788917f380a2d2501156dfea John posted an update in the group Quotations: "History may not repeat, but it often rhymes." History […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/1871/ Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:01:00 -0500 “History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.”

History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes – Quote Investigator
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/

]]> 0 aae45a87a65525a79452df0ab837e6d3 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/1737/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 14:56:34 -0500 “You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

]]> 0 0e52aeaa54ac56a1e31d91594d05248b John posted an update in the group Quotations: "A theory that explains everything, explains nothing." -- […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/1707/ Tue, 30 Jun 2020 05:34:59 -0500 “A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.”
— Karl Popper

]]> 0 8afe84d43cdbe680d0a89d6e7fa95c74 John posted an update in the group Quotations: "Until philosophers are kings, and the princes of this world […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/1705/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:19:31 -0500 “Until philosophers are kings, and the princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and power meet in one, cities will never cease from ill — no, nor the human race, as I believe — and then only will our state have a possibility of life, and see the light of day… The truth is, that the state in which the…[Read more]

]]> 0 605b62cee4ac9f08101369cad5092e6a John posted an update in the group Quotations: If thou would'st master care and pain, Unfold this book and […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/1703/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:14:26 -0500 If thou would’st master care and pain,
Unfold this book and read and read again
Its blessed leaves, whereby thou soon shalt see
The past, the present, and the days to be
With opened eyes; and all delight, all grief,
Shall be like smoke, as empty and as brief.
— Arethas of Caesarea, regarding the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

]]> 1 ddb25dafda76977cdefc9dc6d85ed04b John posted an update in the group Quotations: "If you only knew the magnificence of the 3,6,9 then you […] https://veritas.freedino.net/buddypress/activity/p/1607/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 09:56:44 -0500 “If you only knew the magnificence of the 3,6,9 then you have the key to the universe.”
— Nikola Tesla

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