So many lazy authors, songwriters and media spinmeisters try to pass off their latest offering as nothing more than the happenstance of life.
OR, “the way of the world.”
For the reader, these little scribblings often mean that an insight–no matter how large or how small–has been offered into how the world REALLY works.
As opposed to how the world works, according to the stories which those who believe they control the world offer the great unwashed.
And so, we offer the reader 30 quotes about the ‘way of the world’ according to the world’s favorites.
These are divided into TWO separate groups: the first group contains 15 little insights into how the world REALLY functions; the second group contains 15 little pieces of worldly advice.
(A BONUS QUOTE is also included: for a grand total of 16 in EACH section.)
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“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
—John D. Rockefeller
“You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.”
—Daniel Hannan
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
—Joseph Stalin
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”
—T. S. Eliot
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
—Arundhati Roy
“There is no public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
—Winston Churchill
“More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.”
—John Barth
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
—Thomas Sowell
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”
—Emo Philips
(How many nonbelievers have gambled their entire eternity on this one?)
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
—Alan Kay
“Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too – if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.”
—Michael Moore
“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”
—Robert McAfee Brown
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
—Vladimir Lenin
“The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.”
—Eric Hoffer
BONUS QUOTE
“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The second grouping of quotes is a section of worldly men and women who offer advice on how to succeed in this world.
Just because these people are firmly in this world does NOT mean that their advice is often correct: it isn’t.
Therefore, much of what follows are also little snippets of propaganda, offered to assist in misleading any who fall for it.
“Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’”
—Bill Maher
(Only a committed nonbeliever would erroneously believe that God ‘fires’ man.)
“There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.”
—Sylvester Stallone
“You have to believe in yourself, challenge yourself, and push yourself until the very end; that’s the only way you’ll succeed.”
—G-Dragon
“The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.”
—Gabrielle Bernstein
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
—Walter Hagen
“God made me the way I am, and I accept myself. I am who I am, and I’m proud of myself.”
—Caster Semenya
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
—Albert Camus
“You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, ‘I feel good, I have my health, and I’m so blessed.’ That’s the way I choose to look at it.”
—Isla Fisher
“Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.”
—Brian Greene
“Coronavirus can happen to anyone, so, it’s really important to maintain good health overall. That way, when it hits you, you have an immune system that is strong enough to fight the virus.”
—Sara Khan
“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.”
—Henry Lawson
“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.”
—Damon Runyon
“Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people.”
—Michael Shellenberger
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
“I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.”
—Anthony Hopkins
BONUS QUOTE
“If you’re healthy, if you don’t get sick much, if you don’t go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It’s just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.”
—Rush Limbaugh
DOES the reader believe the world works the way he is told it work?
It is not YET too late: there is still a little time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.
DOES the reader believe he is saved?
Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival
DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?
Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16
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