Poems and Quotes

"Viewer of History" quote and others by Ernest Jude Navy
An objective viewer of history quickly ascertains that there are no good guys or bad guys, only people willing to fight and die for their own selfish causes and in the aftermath of human carnage and mass destruction, the victors have the task of deciding which side was good and which side was bad. Seldom will the victor accept the latter.--July of 1992
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If you are compassionate enough, you can find beauty everywhere; religion fails to teach this;--August of 1990
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Within one, there is two; the greatest battle ever waged is from within one's own personal being.
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A man who bases his belief system on what comes from a book instead from within, cannot be trusted.--September of 1993
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The true measure of man is not in his comparison to others, but in his comparison to his former state of being.--December of 1988
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When a man no longer has hope to cling to, then hatred becomes his only ally.--July of 1996
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Buddha or Jesus?: No matter who the bearer may be, everyone should be willing to listen to the truth.--June of 1998
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To know war is to know insanity; to engage in war is an example of man's lower level of creativity.--September of 1991
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Because someone has the power to do something, does not necessarily give them the right to do it. Man has fail to realize this.--July of 1988