Thoughts to Ponder for October 5, 2012
To be awake is now illegal, and innocence is punishable by death
This the way the world ends: Not with a bang, but with a whimper. ~ T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men (1)
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"Great military peoples have conquered their known world time and time again through the centuries, only to die out in the inevitable ashes of their fire. Well over two thousand years ago, the Chinese philosopher, Laotzu, concluded that:"Weapons often turn upon the wielder, An army's harvest is a waste of thorns."We may have to resort to arms in the future, as we have in the past. We may have to use them to prevent atomic war from being launched against us. But let us have the wisdom to realize that the use of force is a sign of weakness on a higher plane, and that a policy based primarily on recourse to arms will sooner or later fail." -- Charles Lindbergh, Of Flight and Life, 1948