Birkedal Hartmann Quotes

Nothing is the same. ~ Silvia Hartmann

Life is what happens in-between writing; almost always a necessary inconvenience. ~ Ivor W. Hartmann

Men have more to lose than their chains . ~ Heidi Hartmann

What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness? ~ Silvia Hartmann

You must become your enemy to truly understand him. ~ Felix O. Hartmann

You don't have to solve it, only evolve it! ~ Silvia Hartmann

People aren't broken. They're just interestingly wired. ~ Silvia Hartmann

the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights. ~ Thom Hartmann

Life's too short, drive it like ya stole it! ~ Debra L. Hartmann

Always scroll to the bottom. ~ R.L.B. Hartmann

The most precious thing I have to give is my time. ~ Silvia Hartmann

You are the gift that only you would have to give. ~ Silvia Hartmann

You're not out for the count until you're dead. ~ Silvia Hartmann

Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter. ~ Silvia Hartmann

One should not confuse creativity with whining. ~ Silvia Hartmann

There is more carbon in the atmosphere trapping heat and moisture than ever before in the 165,000 years of human history. ~ Thom Hartmann

It is a scientifically proven fact that all scientifically proven facts have originated from original and thereby unproven theories. ~ Silvia Hartmann

A soul cannot develop and progress without an appropriate body, because it is the physical body that furnishes the material for its development. ~ Franz Hartmann

The less you think and the more you do, the better things tend to become. ~ Silvia Hartmann

Breaking Big Money's Grip on America is "a brilliant analysis of where we are and where we need to go. Read this book. ~ Thom Hartmann

I hold it to be impracticable"4 to try to define it or any right narrowly in a Bill of Rights. ~ Thom Hartmann

Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued. ~ Felix O. Hartmann

If you fill your mind with wonderful thoughts, there can be no room left for doubt. ~ Silvia Hartmann

He who helps in the saving of others, saves himself as well. ~ Hartmann Von Aue

Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge. ~ Felix O. Hartmann

To truly learn from someone or something, one must first learn to love them. ~ Silvia Hartmann

War is the remedy for peace. ~ Silvia Hartmann

As long as it still hurts, it isn't love yet. ~ Silvia Hartmann

She danced alone with her eyes closed, and seemed to move to a beat more powerful than what ears alone could hear. ~ Ivor W. Hartmann

Corporations haven't limited their grasp to the First Amendment; pretty much any and virtually every amendment that could be used to further corporate interests has been fair game. ~ Thom Hartmann

There is nothing more profitable than the extreme avant garde. ~ Silvia Hartmann

Energy work is priceless. It makes every day extraordinary and transforms the mundane to the holy. ~ Silvia Hartmann

Life is like riding a ship into the storm. For every wave you take up, you have to drop just as deep. ~ Felix O. Hartmann

Why is time more important than money? There is no time lottery where you can hope to win an extra million days ... ~ Silvia Hartmann

The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other. ~ Erich Hartmann

Both Jefferson and Adams were wary of priests in all forms, as they both knew theocracies are enemies of democracy. Jefferson pointed out that the Indians shared their wariness: ~ Thom Hartmann

If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better. ~ Erich Hartmann

We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich. ~ Karl Amadeus Hartmann

...they were always going somewhere yet seemingly nowhere, some house, some club, some river, some place, all fixed by a nowhere ring of familiar faces. ~ Ivor W. Hartmann

Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything. ~ Thom Hartmann

My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you. ~ Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality. ~ Felix O. Hartmann

One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions ... like a state of sheer terror. ~ William Kenneth Hartmann

Instead of defining a few rights, Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 84, "Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing, and as they retain everything, they have no need of particular reservations. ~ Thom Hartmann

God does not redeem the personal man by death. He redeems himself by freeing himself from the personality of man. ~ Franz Hartmann

You can only change that which you love. ~ Silvia Hartmann

True religion is the realization of truth. ~ Franz Hartmann

Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had. ~ Felix O. Hartmann

Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman. ~ Erich Hartmann

Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts. ~ Felix O. Hartmann

Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can't be any good! ~ Silvia Hartmann

In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds. ~ Erich Hartmann

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED. ~ Silvia Hartmann

Making a dream come true is like taking control of an airplane high up in the stratosphere and landing it safely on the ground – a measure of forethought, skill and courage is definitely required. ~ Silvia Hartmann

Darkness reveals truths that no sun can bring to light, for inside the heart of man resides a beast, only tamed by the shackles of the day. ~ Felix O. Hartmann

It is said that most people judge themselves too harshly. I disagree. If they judged themselves harshly enough, they would come to the conclusion that they're the last person on Earth to be judging anyone. ~ Silvia Hartmann

And those rights are not to be lightly infringed upon by government in any way. They're explicitly protected by the Constitution from the government. We are, after all, fragile living things that can be suppressed and abused by the powerful. ~ Thom Hartmann

The Constitution doesn't give us rights: it restrains government from infringing on rights we acquire at birth by virtue of being human beings, "natural rights" that are held by "natural persons." The Constitution holds back (restraining government) rather than gives forward (granting rights to people). ~ Thom Hartmann

Just because you don't know how on Earth something might be achieved doesn't mean you shouldn't allow yourself to really, really want it. That's the essence of a dream, the realms of magic and of miracles. ~ Silvia Hartmann

Thinking of love in terms of romance is like thinking of God in terms of a priest. ~ Silvia Hartmann

Electric cars have an easy minimum range of 100 miles and a typical range of closer to 200 miles. And the technology is just getting started. We fight wars all over the world for oil, and we don't even need it. That, in and of itself, is insane. ~ Thom Hartmann

Other corporations have asserted Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination as well as asserted that the Fourteenth Amendment - passed after the Civil War to strip slavery from the Constitution - protects their right "against discrimination" by a local community that doesn't want them building a toxic waste incinerator, commercial hog operation, or superstore. ~ Thom Hartmann

There is no evidence when we look to the past for any precedent for the rate of change in atmospheric composition that we're causing, and the rates of change in climate that we can expect, as we continue to burn fossil fuels and elevate these greenhouse gas concentrations. ~ Thom Hartmann

2003 case before the Supreme Court in which Nike claimed that it had the First Amendment right to lie in its corporate marketing, a variation on the First Amendment right of free speech. (Except in certain contract and law enforcement/court situations, it's perfectly legal for human persons to lie in the United States. ~ Thom Hartmann

It's estimated that the Arctic, within seven years and maybe as soon as 2015, will have its first ice-free summer in the last 700,000 years (keep in mind that humans have only been on this planet for 165,000 years). Earlier projections predicted ice-free summers as far out in the future as 2080. ~ Thom Hartmann

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow. ~ Karl Amadeus Hartmann

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed. ~ Thom Hartmann

You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock him down from point-blank range. You'll get him from in close. At long distance, it's questionable. ~ Erich Hartmann

With the help of prominent media outlets, the Royalists, now a political minority, would engage in a scorched-earth strategy to defeat a coming Progressive Revolution, even if it meant crashing the United States as we know it. If they were going down, then the rest of the nation was going down with them.

Which is exactly what happened. ~ Thom Hartmann

It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless. ~ Silvia Hartmann

Her crime cost nobody their life, but she famously was escorted off to a women's prison. Had she been a corporation instead of a human being, odds are there never would have even been an investigation. Yet over the past century - and particularly the past forty years - corporations have repeatedly asserted that they are, in fact, "persons" and therefore eligible for the human rights protections of the Bill of Rights. ~ Thom Hartmann

The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does. ~ Thom Hartmann

Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil-that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made from the soil in which it grew. That's a common mistake. That tree is mostly made up of one of the gases in our air (carbon dioxide) and water (hydrogen and oxygen). Trees are solidified air and sunlight. ~ Thom Hartmann

But Hamilton lost the day, Jefferson won, and we have a Bill of Rights built into our Constitution that, as Hamilton feared, has increasingly been used to limit, rather than expand, the range of human rights American citizens can claim. And because it's in our Constitution, the only way other than a Supreme Court decision to make explicit "new" rights (such as a right to health care) is through the process of amending that document. ~ Thom Hartmann

Every day kill just one, rather than today five, tomorrow ten ... that is enough for you. Then your nerves are calm and you can sleep good, you have your drink in the evening and the next morning you are fit again. ~ Erich Hartmann

Traditional English, Dutch, French, and Spanish law didn't say that corporations are people. The U.S. Constitution wasn't written with that idea; corporations aren't mentioned anywhere in the document or its Amendments. For America's first century, courts all the way up to the Supreme Court repeatedly said, "No, corporations do not have the same rights as humans." In fact, the Founders were quite clear (as you can see from Hamilton's debate earlier) that only humans inherently have rights. ~ Thom Hartmann

As the moon without the light of the sun is dark, so likewise the images produced by thought have no power unless they are strengthened by the Will; while the Will is useless unless it is guided and brought into a form by thought. If thought and will are divided, they are both ineffective; but if thought and will are in unison, they become effective; they then constitute a Unity, and this unity is called "Spirit. ~ Franz Hartmann

I studied history in college, and I've always enjoyed reading, especially political biographies, and I can state that in all my studies and all my experiences, I have come across just one truly honest politician: my great-grandfather, William Eichner. ... According to my grandmother, when he was elected to the General Assembly, he stopped going to religious services and never set foot in a church during his two terms in office, stating, "You can't serve God and politics at the same time". ~ John W. Hartmann

It's ironic that the Tea Party populists, most of whom believe that they are furthering the American ideal of "rugged individualism," are supporting mega-corporate-friendly policies like Reaganomics and Clintonomics and are making it very difficult for individuals to be anything other than drones in a giant corporate-run economic machine. And, on the flipside, those countries that call themselves "democratic socialist" in their organization - Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden - actually provide a deep and fertile soil into which entrepreneurs may plant new businesses. ~ Thom Hartmann

So we now know the formula for extinction. Something happens to increase global temperatures five to six degrees, which triggers a melting of the frozen carbon and methane oceanic reserves that then leads to further global warming devastating life on Earth. Thus, the pressing question for us today is this: Can seven billion people on the planet burning fossil fuels imitate the sort of carbon greenhouse gas release caused by the Permian lava flows, or the K/T mass extinction impact or whatever warming caused the PETM? The answer is yes. ~ Thom Hartmann

Dr. Hartmann. He was a famous neurologist from Philadelphia. ~ David Reuben

An important book for understanding the history of our economic boom & bust cycles. It's an eye-opening account of how we are repeating the mistakes of the 1760's, 1850's, and 1920's. The author is a brilliant writer and is so good at explaining even the most complex subjects in a compelling & easy to understand way. The next crash will be painful but it's important to understand what is being done to us, and how we can learn from history and take action. ~ Thom Hartmann

Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along with the frenzied rise of shoppers willing to fight each other at retail outlets across America, we've been steadily, for the last 30 years, watching the destruction of organized labor ... of decent pay and wages and conditions for working people ... We have Black Friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for 32 years, ever since Ronald Reagan's election. ~ Thom Hartmann

Man's only hope lies in "final redemption from the misery of volition and existence into the painlessness of non-being and non-willing." No mortal may quit the task of life, but each must do his part to hasten the time when in the major portion of the human race the activity of the unconscious shall be ruled by intelligence, and this stage reached, in the simultaneous action of many persons volition will resolve upon its own non-continuance, and thus idea and will be once more reunited in the Absolute. ~ Karl Robert Eduard Von Hartmann

One thing I've learned is this: Never allow yourself to hate a people because of the actions of a few. Hatred and bigotry destroyed my nation, and millions died. I would hope that most people did not hate Germans because of the Nazis, or Americans because of slaves. Never hate, it only eats you alive. Keep an open mind and always look for the good in people. You may be surprised at what you find. ~ Erich Hartmann

Many people today think that the Tea Act - which led to the Boston Tea Party - was simply an increase in the taxes on tea paid by the American colonists. That's where the whole "Taxation Without Representation" meme came from.

Instead, the purpose of the Tea Act was to give the East India Company full and unlimited access to the American tea trade and to exempt the company from having to pay taxes to Britain on tea exported to the American colonies. It even gave the company a tax refund on millions of pounds of tea that it was unable to sell and holding in inventory.

In other words, the Tea Act was the largest corporate tax break in the history of the world. ~ Thom Hartmann

Master Stanley used to tell me that what I was doing was nowhere near as important as the place within myself from where I was doing it. For example, a person could be teaching others out of a selfless motive, or out of a desire for power or glory: the former had a positive impact on the world, whereas the latter had a negative impact, even though the same identical teaching may have been imparted. "It's the spirit that's important," he would say. "It's even more important than the act. Going to work in a gas station and providing for your family out of love is more important than creating a mighty religious work out of a desire for glory or power. ~ Thom Hartmann

The problem is that I'm Josef Weber's friend. but Reiner Hartmann is my enemy. So what do I do, now that they are the same man? ~ Jodi Picoult

I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann. ~ Andy Dick

Running through my mind are thoughts of all the races I ran. On my chest are medals from the races I won. In my heart is gratitude to Gerard Hartmann for helping make my dreams come true. I am very honoured to be a part of this wonderful book. ~ Douglas Wakiihuri

A person who peremptorily denies the existence of anything which is beyond the horizon of his understanding because he cannot make it harmonise with his accepted opinions is as credulous as he who believes everything without any discrimination. Either of these persons is not a freethinker, but a slave to the opinions which he has accepted from others, or which he may have formed in the course of his education, and by his special experiences in his (naturally limited) intercourse with the world. If such persons meet with any extraordinary fact that is beyond their own experience, they often either regard it with awe and wonder, and are ready to accept any wild and improbable theory that may be offered to them in regard to such facts, or they sometimes reject the testimony of credible witnesses, and frequently even that of their own senses. They often do not hesitate to impute the basest motives and the most silly puerilities to honourable persons, and are credulous enough to believe that serious and wise people had taken the trouble to play upon them "practical jokes," and they are often willing to admit the most absurd theories rather than to use their own common sense. ~ Franz Hartmann

We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans. ~ Ed Ayres

Much more plausible is the computer-based explanation that dreams are a spillover from the unconscious processing of the day's experience, from the brain's decision on how much of the daily events temporarily stored in a kind of buffer to emplace in long-term memory... The American psychiatrist Ernest Hartmann of Tufts University has provided
anecdotal but reasonably persuasive evidence that people who are engaged in intellectual activities during the day, especially unfamiliar intellectual activities, require more sleep at night, while, by and large, those engaged in mainly repetitive and intellectually unchallenging tasks are able to do with much less sleep. ~ Carl Sagan