#prophecies

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#important #man #more #often #prophecies

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#communism #largely #like #made #other

He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves. ↗

— Christopher Hopper

#christian-science-fiction #elves #grimwarden #jimmy #jimmy-gresham

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#absolute power #also #come #lie #lies

To know one's future is the single most destructive way of ending your life before you've lived it." - Altheon (Betrayal- Fey Court Trilogy) ↗

— Cyndi Goodgame

#prophecies #life

If Under fell, if Over leaped, If death was life and Death life reaped, Something rises from the gloom, To make the Underland a tomb Hear it scratching down below, Rat of long forgotten snow, Evil cloaked in coat of White, Will the Warrior drain your light? What could turn the Warrior week? What do burning Gnawers seek? Just a barely speaking pup That holds the Land of Under up Die the baby, die his heart Die his most essential part Die the peace that rules the hour, Gnawers have their key to power ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#prophecies #warning #death

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

— Sheri S. Tepper

#history #lessons #prophecies #religion #truth

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#doctrine #narrow-mindedness #orthodoxy #prophecies #religion

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#any #art #beyond #death #different

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#fellow men #fulfilling #habit #his #incurable