Re: OT - Your Comments on the recent
Re: OT - Your Comments on the recent
- Subject: Re: OT - Your Comments on the recent
- From: George Mack <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 07:43:48 -0400
At 8:29 PM -0700 16/09/01, Ed Stockly wrote:
>>Peter B.>>In the end, I fear that Walt Kelly's words (paraphrased) are too
true: "The enemy is us."
The full quote: "We have met the enemy and 'they' is us."
This famous quote from Walt Kelly is often misused, misunderstood or
paraphrased in ways that that completely alter its original meaning or
intent.
Bill Briggs added
Famous or not, it came earlier from someone else, only in a slightly
different form. Before PoGo ever hit the press, Gandhi was observed
to say that "the only devils alive in the world are the ones inside
of us, and we should spend our time defeating them". That may not be
verbatim, but I've got the text here in the bookshelf and it's not
far off. And quite possibly he took them from a more ancient source.
- web
I believe a related quote came from ancient Hindu scripture (possibly
the Mahabharata):
"One must lift up the self with the self,
and not let the self down,
for the self is the self's only friend,
and the self is the self's only enemy."
I've had the quotation on my wall since after college.
What odd byways this list encompasses! Perhaps everything IS related,
maybe with 6 degreees...
George
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