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No doubt, capital is lifeless, but not the capitalists who are amenable to conversion. |
Gandhi |
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
Gandhi
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good.
Gandhi
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
Gandhi
Conscience is the ripe fruit of strictest discipline.
Gandhi
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove a source of infinite mischief.
Gandhi
Faith gains in strength only when people are willing to lay down their lives for it.
Gandhi
The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material force of nature, like electricity.
Gandhi
Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.
Gandhi
Justice will come when it is deserved by our being and feeling strong.
Gandhi
Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
Gandhi
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing, and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.
Gandhi
In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
Gandhi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Gandhi
Truth is what the voice within tells you.
Gandhi
Truth and nonviolence will never be destroyed.
Gandhi
Hey Ram!
Gandhi's last words
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx, American comedian, born on October 2, 1890
I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx
Do you think I could buy back my introduction to you?
Groucho Marx
As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.
Groucho Marx
I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.
Groucho Marx
Well, I had a
family, I had ... eh.
Harpo played the harp, that was pretty obvious.
Chico was what they
used to call a chicken chaser. In England now they call them birds, which is the
equivalent of a chicken chaser in America fifty years ago. He did very well with
that, too. Zeppo was
born when the Zeppelin arrived at Lakehurst, New Jersey. He had nothing to do
with the arrival. My other brother
Gummo – it's not his
real name, his real name was ... eh ... was Milton. It seemed like such a silly
name, and we used to call him Gumshoes, because somebody had given him a pair of
rubbers. In a nice way, I mean. And that's his name: Gummo Marx. My name, of
course, I never did understand.
Groucho Marx
Source
The Random Groucho Marx Quotes Page
[Governments] have no money except what they take from men like you and me.
Graham Greene, British novelist, playwright, short story writer and
journalist, born on October 2, 1904;
Our Man in Havana
I get a life that holds infinite possibilities and is entirely satisfactory to me on all planes of consciousness.
Rosaleen Norton, New Zealand-born artist, known in Sydney, Australia as
'the Witch of Kings Cross', born on October 2, 1917
This figleaf morality expresses a very unhealthy attitude.
Rosaleen Norton
I came into the world bravely; I'll go out bravely.
Last words of Rosaleen Norton Source
It ain't fair, John Sinclair
In the stir for breathing air
Won't you care for John Sinclair?
In the stir for breathing air
Let him be, set him free
Let him be like you and me
They gave him ten for two
What else can the judges do?
Ya got, ya got, ya got, ya got, ya got, ya got, ya got, ya got, ya got,
to set him free
John Lennon
(1940 - 1980); 'John Sinclair' from the album Some
Time in New York City. John Sinclair was born on October 2, 1941
October 2
is
the 275th
day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (276th
in leap years),
with 90
days remaining.
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Feast day of the Guardian Angels
(Friars' minors soapwort, Saponaria officinalis, is today's plant, dedicated to the Guardian Angels.)
On September 27,
1608, Pope Paul V placed a
feast venerating the angels on the
general calendar of the Roman Catholic Church (they used to share September 29 with
St Michael).
The word 'angel' originated
from the Latin
angelus, itself derived from the Greek
αγγελος, ággelos, meaning 'messenger'. An angel
is a spiritual being which assists and serves God or the gods in
many religious
traditions.
A belief in angels, for example, is central to the religion of Islam,
beginning with the belief that the Quran was
dictated to the Prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel.
Tutelary spirits
The idea of a guardian
angel or spirit predates Christianity, as in Rome where every man had his
genius – the guiding
or tutelary spirit of
a person or indeed of an entire gens – and every woman her
Iuno.
Belief
in tutelary gods or spirits often reflects a tradition of animism.
We might think of the tutelary spirits (in particular, genius
loci, spirits associated with and protective of place) of England
as King Arthur and St George, of
Sherwood Forest as Robin
Hood, and Windsor Park, Herne. The Celtic
goddess Brigantia
was tutelary goddess of the Brigantes
tribe of England. Individuals might also have tutelary spirits – angels,
fairy godmothers, totems or spirit guides, for example.
The Roman
religion had dozens of tutelary spirits, such as Diana of
Aricia, who watched over a sacred grove at Aricia, or the goddess Levana, who
watched over young children. The Lares and Penates
were local tutelary deities, as was the genius loci, a spirit said to be
present in certain places. Venus is mentioned
by Catullus
and Juvenal
as the tutelary
deity of Ancona, Italy. A comparable term
from Arabic lore is a djinn, known in English as a 'genie'.
Shinto is
also a religion
whose many spirits, or kami, could be described as tutelary. Finnish mythology
had such tutelary spirits as Kotitonttu, tutelary of the home; Pihatonttu
(of the yard); Saunatonttu (of the sauna); Tonttu (a
generally benign tutelary). Hiisi are a
kind of tutelary spirit in mythologies
of the Baltic Sea area. In Indonesia, a guardian angel may
be hung over an infant's crib to supposedly safeguard them as they
sleep.
Monarchs,
too, might have tutelary spirits, such as the Persian
sun-god Mitra (Mithras);
royal names incorporating the god's name (e.g. 'Mithradates') appear
in royal names of Parthia, Armenia, and in Anatolia, in Pontus and
Cappadocia.
The Guardian Angels is
the name of a volunteer
anti-crime organization that operates in the United
States, Europe,
Brazil,
and Japan.
Angel ranks
According to medieval Christian theologians, the Angels are organized into several orders, or Angelic Choirs.
The most influential of these classifications was that put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the Fourth or Fifth century, in his book The Celestial Hierarchy. However, during the Middle Ages, many schemes were proposed, some drawing on and expanding on Pseudo-Dionysius, others suggesting completely different classifications (some authors limited the number of Choirs to seven).
The heavenly orders of angels are ranked thus (though sources differ as to the order in the hierarchy):
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