Nicholas Trist quotes

Nicholas Trist quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.”
-- Nicholas Trist

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“It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition. Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.”
“My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.”
“You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.”
“We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.”
“The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.”
“Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.”
“The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.”
“The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.”
“The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.”

Source : "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson",
“Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.”

Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.

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