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An enjoyable, interesting collection of thoughts and quotes from famous people. Some are quite appropriate for today's society and some may be surprised by who wrote what when:

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Personal Sovereignty Quotes: Quotes About State Power and Freedom

The atom of freedom is the individual. Man is a social animal, but the freedom we experience comes from mastery of the self. A collectivity of those who cannot control their passions can never truly be free. Here are some quotes about ruling yourself rather than seeking to rule over others.
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BobM said:
An enjoyable, interesting collection of thoughts and quotes from famous people. Some are quite appropriate for today's society and some may be surprised by who wrote what when:

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Personal Sovereignty Quotes: Quotes About State Power and Freedom

The atom of freedom is the individual. Man is a social animal, but the freedom we experience comes from mastery of the self. A collectivity of those who cannot control their passions can never truly be free. Here are some quotes about ruling yourself rather than seeking to rule over others.
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Thank you Sir! This may be the richest, most useful, pertinent trove of information ever shared on this forum!
Should be mandatory civics and social studies material in our schools.

How does one pull out a favorite from the chest?

Mine was the quote from the Prophet from the frozen north, sent to us all yet we did not hear nor listen. I've read everything he ever published.
 
For me, a revelation came when I discovered that I have the capacity to inflict great harm. A self awareness if you will. I realized that if I have this capacity, so do other people. Almost like a nuclear arms race, I pondered how that might work out and decided it would be best to just have respect. Once I realized the capacity of my intelligence, I became a more thoughtful person and decided that I was not put on this earth to harm anyone, nor wished to be harmed.
Unfortunately some do not think the thought process all the way through and become enamored with themselves and believe that they can inflict more harm or that they just know something others do not. You can find evidence of that at every turn. Many think they know more, know better or are somehow superior in thought and while they may in certain areas, that very thought is very juvenile and shows lack of development in the more advanced thought process.
I found from reading, that our ancestors and those from the past were extremely intelligent. More than they are given credit for and more than the general masses of today. I have studied many from the past, on science, philosophy and religion and at one point you can almost draw a line connecting them all, a commonality they all had, that knows no bounds and crosses language, distance and even time.
 
C. Sumpin said:
Thank you Sir! This may be the richest, most useful, pertinent trove of information ever shared on this forum!
Should be mandatory civics and social studies material in our schools.

How does one pull out a favorite from the chest?

Mine was the quote from the Prophet from the frozen north, sent to us all yet we did not hear nor listen. I've read everything he ever published.
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Your welcome.
World may be a better place than it is if history was read and paid attention to more often?
Sadly, I learned little in actual school except how to learn in my very early years.
More wisdom was learned and gained after school years than ever was within.
 
the obsrver said:
For me, a revelation came when I discovered that I have the capacity to inflict great harm. A self awareness if you will. I realized that if I have this capacity, so do other people. Almost like a nuclear arms race, I pondered how that might work out and decided it would be best to just have respect. Once I realized the capacity of my intelligence, I became a more thoughtful person and decided that I was not put on this earth to harm anyone, nor wished to be harmed.
Unfortunately some do not think the thought process all the way through and become enamored with themselves and believe that they can inflict more harm or that they just know something others do not. You can find evidence of that at every turn. Many think they know more, know better or are somehow superior in thought and while they may in certain areas, that very thought is very juvenile and shows lack of development in the more advanced thought process.
I found from reading, that our ancestors and those from the past were extremely intelligent. More than they are given credit for and more than the general masses of today. I have studied many from the past, on science, philosophy and religion and at one point you can almost draw a line connecting them all, a commonality they all had, that knows no bounds and crosses language, distance and even time.
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Great harm, great respect? Mainly in a mindset. Perception is everything?
Want peace, everything within reach is a tool? Want war, everything within reach is a weapon?
Not much difference except how a tool's used besides the mindset?

Agreed on history. Much was forgotten, lost and hidden over the years.
For example, when libraries in Alexandria were burned much was lost.
 
BobM said:
Great harm, great respect? Mainly in a mindset. Perception is everything?
Want peace, everything within reach is a tool? Want war, everything within reach is a weapon?
Not much difference except how a tool's used besides the mindset?

Agreed on history. Much was forgotten, lost and hidden over the years.
For example, when libraries in Alexandria were burned much was lost.
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I think, no I know that those in charge do not want people to be highly educated. Because as I said, not all will think it all the way through and will get stuck in a place where they think they know more or that their thought process is superior. Those in charge see the bad side of the possibility of a highly educated world and like you said that they will choose to see everything within reach as a weapon. Put simply, those in charge are full of fear. They fear they will no longer be in charge ( someone has to be in charge, right???), and they fear what a population would do with knowledge.
 
the obsrver said:
I think, no I know that those in charge do not want people to be highly educated. Because as I said, not all will think it all the way through and will get stuck in a place where they think they know more or that their thought process is superior. Those in charge see the bad side of the possibility of a highly educated world and like you said that they will choose to see everything within reach as a weapon. Put simply, those in charge are full of fear. They fear they will no longer be in charge ( someone has to be in charge, right???), and they fear what a population would do with knowledge.
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Very well could be?
Power can corrupt even good mindsets. Obvious?
Is difference between training as leaders or as servants?
 
C. Sumpin said:
Thank you Sir! This may be the richest, most useful, pertinent trove of information ever shared on this forum!
Should be mandatory civics and social studies material in our schools.

How does one pull out a favorite from the chest?

Mine was the quote from the Prophet from the frozen north, sent to us all yet we did not hear nor listen. I've read everything he ever published.
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Who is that Prophet? So I can look for the quotation.
 
I think that it is not just famous people who were smarter back then. Anyone tried to teach anything to the kids today? A test of patience for sure.

"our need will be the real creator" adapted to necessity is the mother of all invention. (Plato)
 
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