It Philosophy Quotes

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.

No one is absolutely free from religion and philosophy, for the life we live is always under the influence of religion and philosophy!

I just want to live in a way that either wakes people up or shakes people up. Whether I have opened a wound or opened a heart, I have touched a life and helped bring a change.

When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

I wouldn’t want freedom all the time but it’s nice to know it’s attainable

In today's life, Luxury is Time and Space.

Well old man, I guess freedom's a continuum.

Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call “philosophy” - most of which is pure nonsense.

An avalanche is just a snowflake that got pissed off.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

If it’s taking to long to get up the career ladder, get a career lift.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?

Once upon a time, there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of progress.

That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.

News Flash!All politicians arms are going to be lengthened so that they will be able to pat themselves on the back for doing a great job.

The rights of the individual are more important than the wishes of the masses.

In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused.

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

Politics, it's all corrupt!

Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.

A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.

Why is it so many politicians are wealthy?Is it because they make good investments?Or is it simply.Because they are good investments?

Democracy is an illusion in which we all believe.

I was born a sheep & I cannot be a goat through pledge of hands.

Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress.

Fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious, atheistic, political or educational, is the greatest threat to human excellence – it is a threat to progress – it is a threat to greatness.

Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was as bad as the one into which she had been born. "An exercise in futility, " she murmured.

If the caged birds think whoever scattering grains for them that person is their deity, what should we Kurds call the person who will grantee us an independence.

Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return.

Only those who live for others become immortal, and the rest simply perish within a few weeks, or alas days, after their mortal demise.

To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.

When a moral man speaks, listen. But when immoral men speak, toss away their words like bad fruit. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle

The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.

Life is politics, you do it or it does you

In politics what you see is not what you get

Power hungry=life loving

Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.

The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world

Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will sacrifice others himself to get it

Powerless=lifeless.