Thoughts

© Julie Ruffell

"Armies should be used for protection, not aggression."

"There will be genocide in our world as long as we hide from identifying it. We must dare to acknowledge its occurrence, so that we may fight it."

"Fight to live, but never surrender to exist."

"We who claim to be so above everything else due to our intellect, are the dumbest creatures on earth. With all our brains, we choose not to think."

"I dare to see what you refuse to see. I dare to listen to what you're afraid to hear. I dare to learn the knowledge you cower from."

"No human lives. No human is free. We are slaves to our own dimwitted wills."

"Humans are carnivores; sucking the marrow from each other's bones."

"To cover up, turn a blind eye to, lie, or deny a genocide, is nearly as awful as committing one."

"If you follow, never do so blindly."

"There are some journeys that we must be taken alone. You cannot take another's journey for them, and sometimes not even with them. But you can wait on the other side, to greet them again when they arrive."

"Put a sword in my hands, show me my enemies, and I shall fight."

"It is easy to serve those we love, so do not measure an individual solely by how they treat their loved ones. Measure them on how they treat those who are not."

"I'm a free thinker, and I want to support free thinkers and help educate others so they too can be free thinkers. Knowledge is power - that's just some phrase. It means something, and it's true. Educate yourself."

"The peasants of old always knew this fact to be true: 'There's a hell of a lot more of us than them.' No one person can control the human populace unless we are foolish enough to allow it."

"It's ridiculous that in this day and age, we the people are still allowing ourselves to be controlled and manipulated so that the wealthy and powerful get more wealthy and more powerful when there are far bigger concerns that should be the focus of all humanity. The people should remember this basic fact: at the end of the day, there's 7 billion of us. We have the power to take control of our lives, our fates, and this world. To remove those that are destroying us all, and step out of the darkness and into the light of a better world. Don't be a slave. Don't be a puppet. Be a free thinker and speak out."

"All of the world's ills stem from human greed. Rise above desire and learn to be."

"To allow yourself to be trapped in your past, or consumed by your future, you are missing the only thing that matters; the now. The past is done and the future can never come. Live when you are."

"Every second is an opportunity to reinvent ourselves, to grow, to be greater. Embrace the opportunity. Dare to be more."

"Every problem in our world today can be traced back to greed and it will be the cause of our extinction."

"Covet not money. Covet humanity. Imagine how the world would change if we did."

"We are not the masters of this planet, we are its caretakers. And we are failing at our duty."

"Writing isn't creating. It's stealing from life."

"Creativity is born from insanity."

"Those that create are magical. Those that destroy are dust."

"If silence is golden, why doesn't anyone ever shut the hell up?"

"The greatest success is to not give up."

"It's not about how you treat the most. It's about how you treat the least."

"Everything that happens outside is a reflection of within."

"I often find educated people to be among the least intelligent."

"Any who would mock the loss of life, are just as twisted as those who would take it."

"Life doesn't begin when you're born. It begins when you choose."

"That which gives us the ability to soar above all over creation, will forever bind us to the ground."

"Be my friend and know my generosity. Be my enemy and know my wrath."

"We have no one to blame but ourselves for the monsters that prey upon us."

"If you want the world to be better place, then be a better person."

"If you don't try you have nothing to lose. If you do try - you have everything to gain."

"Opposites may attract, but they do not sustain."

"You can only learn if you listen. You can only understand if you do not judge."

"The strongest outsides is often the weakest within."

"When did the presence of innocence become a time of anger and fear?"

"Everyday we turn our backs on love and peace, we turn our innocence into children of hate and war."

"Close your eyes and lose yourself to melody."

"I will defer first and foremost to my Muse."

"I will not survive, I will live and if I cannot live, I will not survive."

"What is a miracle for one, may completely destroy another."