Mary Heron > Mary's Quotes

“Earth Breathes in Us.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

“Life is free, food grows on trees.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“We were originally naked in the garden of paradise, "but unashamed." After the serpent of forced assimilation, "we were taught shame upon our natural beauty.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Nature gives reproductive rights at puberty.
The same oppressors that make it hard to raise kids by
limiting resources, make it hard to make personal choices.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
― Thomas Szasz

“The same people that outlawed the practice of Native American Medicine (without a colonizer centric degree), outlawed the traditional practice of healing those that are hurt/ill without expecting anything in return. Free healthcare. The basis of community.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“There is also a global consensus that Tehran’s unbridled terrorism and other malevolent actions are byproducts of its extremist, suppressive, and expansionist nature.”
― National Council of Resistance of Iran-U.S. Representative Office, Iran's Emissaries of Terror: How mullahs' embassies run the network of espionage and murder

“I'm from the Lenape Tribe.
There're no full blooded Lenape alive. Interracial is assimilatory genocide, especially for Indiginous and Minorities worldwide.
Especially when specific suggestion on a mass scale is applied. For many tribes, Interracial was the only way to survive.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way…It is this spiritual freedom—which cannot be taken away—that makes life meaningful and purposeful.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“The consciousness of one’s inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, and cannot be shaken…”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“To disassociate darkness from evil.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“They came to us and grabbed my friend's bag, and one of them started beating him on the head with a stick. That friend punched the guy who grabbed him, and together, we started running toward that dry creek. We ran for our lives. Those guys, who were Gaza citizens, entered through breaches in the fence and apparently came to rob us or kidnap us.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“Love sends a man half way around the world ...
Just for the hope of catching it.”
― Jonathan Hickman, East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“Impossible to be alone inside something living & listening. ”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“I learned in my first life that we’re not born with knowledge or skills. We must learn and work hard to acquire them. I believe we should always thank those willing to teach them whether we like or agree with them. We need to simply take from it what they know and add it to what we know. Never believe you know it all. Half the time we don’t even know the question. I don’t think I really understood this ‘til much later.”
― Th3

“The Hitler tyranny was doomed. Here, then, we might pause in thankfulness and take hope, not only for victory on all fronts and in all three elements, but also for a safe and happy future for tormented mankind.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

“Doreen Valiente wrote the Charge Of The Goddess…Gerald Gardner's books of rites show the Charge developing in the 1940s and early 1950s from a pastiche of Crowley's writing to one of Charles Godfrey Leland and Crowley. What Doreen did was to keep the Leland, which she thought more authentic, put in a new framework, and write the “White Moon Charge”, which is wholly original in its words, although its basic form, of a universal nature goddess identified with the moon and addressing her devotees, is based on Apuleius's "Metamorphoses", from ancient Rome.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive functioning, and were shaped by societal and cultural norms and realities, it is not surprising that you would get stuck. The narcissistic relationship is like a riptide that pulls you back in even as you try to swim away. The intensity, attentiveness, and highs and lows are why you swim out to where the riptide is. The abusive behavior makes you want to swim away from the riptide, but the guilt and fear of leaving, the practical issues raised by leaving (financial, safety, cultural, family), as well as the natural drive toward attachment, connection, and love are what keep you stuck in the riptide's pull.”
― Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

“The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, "I found this up him!"

"You know," said Tallow, "I really have no response to that.”
― Warren Ellis, Gun Machine

“Be exposed. Be open. Be who you want to be. It will never hurt as much as starving your own humanity of oxygen.”
― Warren Ellis, Trees, Vol. 1: In Shadow

“Often those with less have more.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition