Blythe Quotes

“The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“To be free, you must think. There is no way to follow blindly and to be free.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failure and catastrophe and beyond into the abyss with arrogance and anger because wisdom is often too polite to fight. Wisdom doesn’t like to impose its will, but that is all ignorance understands—force over free will and choice. Sooner or later the world comes to its senses, but oh the damage that has been done.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“One of mankind’s greatest sins is inaction in the face of injustice.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Too much reason limits man to the physical world and blinds his imagination to the greater things that may be. But too much faith blinds him from curing the human suffering in this world. Men with too much faith accept suffering; they expect it and even seek it out.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Every manmade disaster begins when one man thinks for another. However benevolent they begin, the ultimate outcome is tyranny.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Some people are anchored to this world by their feet, others by their fears.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin…. [G]ood men build; great men destroy. They destroy because they try to control something other than themselves and that always leads to destruction.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Public awareness is the equinox of tyranny’s rise; once one man learns of another’s captivity, he will act to free him. It is the best and most certain part of man’s nature.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Humanity is not that difficult to understand; it is inhumanity that I cannot decipher.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Discontent comes from two sources alone: Not having dreams, or not pursuing the ones you have. No one has ever died sorry who tried to turn a wish into a memory.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“We are all terminally mortal, but looking after each other will help us to become part of the immortal divine.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“God gives you everything you need. You just have to look around for it, and it will be there.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“She who follows another’s course, finds a sure path to her own remorse.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“It was no accident that one of the first things God asked of Adam was for him to name the animals he saw around him. Why do you suppose God asked man to do that? Because once you have a name, you have the beginning of understanding, and once you have understanding, you lose fear. God didn’t want man to be fearful. He wanted man to be brave.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Catastrophe alone sparks man’s salvation. I don’t mean in the religious sense, although I guess it is appropriate there, too, because believers agree that salvation comes only after death. It is part of the human near-tragedy that we learn more from loss than from gain. Gain binds us until we stumble and fall into that black pit then we find the spirit of understanding and truth. And if we fall far enough and still persist, we find our salvation.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Gold is cold. The only warmth it has we give to it.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Man must be free or he will not survive.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“This is what evil does; it makes choices for others in the name of religion, in the name of government, in the name of community, in the name of personal gain, that these individuals are best able to make for themselves.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Someone can speak with all the sincerity in the world, but with no truth.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“The smallest act of compassion can save a soul, perhaps your own.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“As’ is the most difficult word in a Christian’s life. We have to forgive 'as' we want to be forgiven.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“There is no success where there are no secrets.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“In politics and passion, perception is reality.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Take liberties you shouldn’t and you’ll find your liberties are taken from you.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“A full heart has more room than an empty one.”
― John Kramer, Blythe