A few of my Favorite Quotations
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”
~Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
I asked Tom if countries always apologized
when they had done wrong, & he says,
"Yes; the little ones does."
(*Tom Sawyer Abroad*, Mark Twain)
A revolution is coming: a revolution which will be peaceful if
we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough;
successful if we are fortunate enough. But a revolution which
is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its
character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
Robert F. Kennedy
"the people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy..." Alan Grayson
*"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
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— George Orwell
Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." -
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
'The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry lifetime after lifetime.' - Alex Collier.
"When I give food to the poor, they
call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no
food, they call me a communist."
— Archbishop Helder Camara,
Brazilian liberation theologist
"When we try to pick
out anything by
itself, we find it
hitched to everything
else in the universe."
— John Muir, 1869
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington
English astronomer (1882 - 1944)
"A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate" - Clarence Darrow
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith
"And the day came when
the risk it took to
remain tight inside the
bud was more painful
than the risk it took to
blossom."
— Anais Nin
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -- George Orwell
It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free - to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation, wants him to think, feel and act. The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective. -- Aldous Huxley
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; The other is to refuse to accept what is true. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
"Your face holds all the love in
the world. Moonlight steals across
your face so full of Earthly
beauty and Grief. For now Death
extends her hands of Life and a
band is made between the
thousands of generations who are
dead and the thousands of
generations who are to come."
— Edvard Munch
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. - Albert Einstein
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." -H.L. Mencken
When good people die they go to Paris. Oscar Wilde
"The very concept of objective truth
is fading out of the world.
Lies will pass into history."
— George Orwell
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