My Personal Quotes For others to Cite and Consider.
“It doesn’t matter if you think a leader is good or bad. If you do not question both, you are already a slave.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“If your religion teaches you must obey or die, it is not faith or devotion. It is terrorism!”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“What you are and who you are is not the same thing. What you are cannot be changed. Who you are can. Never confuse the two, or either with what you do or do not do.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“Respect is earned, not given. Tolerance must be limited, for many things are simply intolerable. Only cowards demand both for granted.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“The concept of Religion should only be based in a quest for validation of reality and true objective experiences. It should never be a justification of subjective confirmation biases.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“The concept of Religion should only be based in a quest for validation of reality and true objective experiences. It should never be a justification of subjective confirmation biases.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“The concept that a human being can truly change their biological sex, which does not just shape genitals for reproduction, but the entire physiology based solely on the reality of chromosomes of XX and XY, minus genetic biological defects and abnormalities is pure idiocy promoted as an ideology of utter buffoonery.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“You can call someone whatever you want, or even yourself, however, just because a man calls himself a queen does not change the fact queen is a female title. The same is true for king being used by a woman wont change the reality king is a male title.
Any who claim otherwise have shown they truly are brainwashed and disconnected from reality and often the most perverse of people seeking the destruction of you, your children and nation.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“If is often said to keep your friends close and enemies closer. I am of the opinion the one that came up with that wished to make it easier for an assassin.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“Stupidity is as one who takes their legal advice from a convict that they just met, in jail.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“When the laws of the land are selectively imposed, it isn't justice. It is a true expression of tyranny and must be overthrown.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“Cowardice and stupidity are the most dangerous of things. It is as being a law abiding victim, demanding more restrictions on gun owners who already abide by laws that are excessive already, and thinking that will change the mind of those who don't care about the law to begin with.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“One armed criminal can kill and control many unarmed and scarred people. One armed person entering a room full of armed and trained people won't be able to kill as many, nor continue to exist thereafter.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“A state or government that claims all children belong to them are not protectors of children. They are the abusers of the children and enslavers of all people.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“I rather be hated for being honest, despised for making mistakes, and condemned for changing my views with more information, than loved as a liar and pretend to be infallible.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“Your idea of God and my idea of God may differ. The difference is I do not care and acknowledge God is not the property of any people, nor are any people special or superior to any others regardless what doctrine you draw from.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“The atheist and anti-theist may proclaim they are like monotheists but believe in one less deity. I am like an atheist but believe in four more who are not subject to our diverse desires, urges, whims or wills.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“The idea that all concepts of deities or spiritual entities are merely the expressions of one ultimate pantheistic nebulous "other" or some collective hive mine hybrid poorly outlined philosophic construct and filler is to me as silly as proclaiming a thumb is the same as an supernova.
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“The problem behind the so called conflict between science and religion is not that they are in base context incompatible. The problem is the dogmatism and confirmation biases present in both. Only a willful fool fails to acknowledge that."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“Never trust those who impose a claim of complete certainty about anything, especially when it comes to what may or may not become of the self awareness after the moment of death. Life has shown me that those who proclaim certainty are most often wrong. All we can do is speculate and approximate."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Life has shown me that those who proclaim certainty are most often wrong. All we can do is speculate and approximate. And it is from the know approximations of what we do know about life and the universe my beliefs are grounded, and not plugs for holes in knowledge or evidence."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“It does not matter if there is some sort of hereafter or not. Everything that religions proclaim still rest on the here and now as a determination of what will be the state of the hereafter."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Some assume I hope there is no hereafter of any kind. It's quite the opposite. Indeed, I will say I find it to be incredibly wasteful that in all we know about the wonders of the universe that the concept of self and its awareness falls into oblivion the moment the body and brain switch off forever."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"If you waste your life ending life, being afraid to live life within reason for the best you can, or being "good or bad" for the sake of either, instead of living life and striving to be the best you that you can be, you have already robbed yourself of life, a life that will end, and knowing in this life you can only fully die once having failed to strive for the best and gave into the worst."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Make life count for something while you have it, and not for the sake of trying to be like or better than someone else, past or present."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Many say legends never die. Sadly I must disagree. No one knows of any legends from 50,000 years ago despite who now and in the future may say otherwise."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Yes, it is good to strive for independence and self reliance. It is also important to strive to be reliable and work together towards the same goals and mutual support."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Those who proclaim co-dependence, however, is bad in and of itself are also most likely the least reliable and take no sense of personal responsibility ."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Don't live like everyone else owes you everything because you will only end up in debt to everyone else and have nothing left for you."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“I am under no obligation to explain myself to you, nor are you to me. If you feel the need to do so, fine. This still does not obligate me to explain myself to you.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“If you are angry with me because what I say is often true, the problem isn't I am always right. The problem is you haven't learned to avoid being wrong and have not found anything beyond your opinion to assume I am wrong.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“We are all ignorant of something. In fact, many things. I accept that for myself because one person cannot and does not know all things, and only a complete fool thinks otherwise. The difference is, for myself, I take no comfort remaining in such ignorance.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“Never trust those who claim someone who disagrees with you is an enemy by default. They are the same promoting a mentality of the tyrannical master and compliant slave.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“Never trust someone who is always in agreement with you. Because when your back is turned they are most certainly slandering you to others, or at the very least exposing their cowardice. A true friend has no issues with calling you on your nonsense or needless, unwarranted words and works.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“It's too easy, and rather cowardly to label everything contrary to your view, opinion or beliefs as "hate or hateful" but an effective tool of cowards who often become, when left uncontested, the tyrannical authoritarians accusing all others of the "evils" they are themselves doing and committing.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“Woe unto the culture that takes the view that to disagree or to hold a different opinion means the other hates them, For that becomes the seed of needless violence also reinforced by fear by those who control you.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“Only the profoundly stupid and easily conditioned confuses authority with authoritarian, and an author as a promoter of authoritarianism. The same cannot comprehend the difference between good leadership and tyranny often being petty little tyrants themselves.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Controlled speech isn't free speech. Its blatant censorship and dictatorship.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Never confuse free speech is blatant lack of responsibility, such as slander and, or, misrepresentation. You are free to express your views and opinions. You are not free to be deceitful or intentionally misleading to misinform and manipulate others."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"True responsibility comes with recognition of the reality that everything has its consequences. How immediate is another matter, but the longer delayed, the more destructive.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
“Sometimes you must do bad things for the sake of good in order to stop unrestrained evil.”
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Don't ask me to repeat myself when I already answered your question. All it proves to me is you were not listening to begin with and I do not like being toyed with."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Life does begin at conception. Not every life is viable. However, those who say "it's just a cluster of cells" should be treated the same way for they do not truly care about life or its preservation."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Be wary of they who proclaim their way or belief or devotion is the only way. For they will be among the first to side with a true tyrannical enslavement of others failing to see they will only enslave themselves as well."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
"Those who demand agreement are often the least agreeable. From them walk away."
— Raymond S. G. Foster
