R. B. Thomas Quotes

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Belief in limitation is the one and only thing that causes limitation.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Women hold up the other half of the sky.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

There are no strangers in Freemasonry, only friends you've yet to meet.

The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

We cannot really think in one way and act in another.