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Quotes About Awareness

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
~ Jack Kornfield
Know the enemy and know yourself.
~ Sun Tzu
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
~ James Wolcott
When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.
~ Jeff Bridges
If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
~ David Lloyd George
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.
~ Michael Parenti
This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
~ Robert Byrd
To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
~ Sun Tzu
The world must know what happened, and never forget.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.
~ Roger McGough
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him
~ Sun Tzu
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
~ Gautama Buddha
I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.
~ Julian Assange
By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.
~ C. Everett Koop
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
~ Ernest Bevin
I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.
~ Robert Foster Bennett
Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.
~ Sun Tzu
Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.
~ Linus Pauling
Know thy self, know thy enemy.
~ Sun Tzu
America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.
~ Jim Hightower
Political correctness is a war on noticing.
~ Steve Sailer