-
Desmond Tutu: Humanity
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” ~Desmond Tutu.
-
Eric Sevareid: Crime or suicide
No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. –Eric Sevareid, journalist (1912-1992)
-
Rupert Murdoch: The fast and the slow
“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.” ~Rupert Murdoch.
-
George Orwell: Liberty
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ~George Orwell.
-
Ayn Rand: Power of production
“The power of production is not the same thing as the power of coercion by physical force.” ~Ayn Rand.
-
Christopher Hitchens: Evidence
“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” ~Christopher Hitchens
-
Gilbert K Chesterton: Neighbour
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.” ~Gilbert K Chesterton.
-
Dalton Trumbo: Love and taxes
“Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don’t understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.” —Dalton Trumbo
-
William Booth: Maximum income
“The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. ” ~ William Booth
-
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Silence and music
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (1906-2001)
-
Voltaire: Love
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” —Voltaire,French writer and philosopher.
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Thoughts and actions
“The ancestor of every action is a thought. ”~Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Peter Sellers: Identity
“If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am. ” ~Peter Sellers
-
Norman Vincent Peale: Stretched bow
“You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. ”~Norman Vincent Peale
-
Eduardo Galeano: History
“History never really says goodbye. History says, “See you later.” ~Eduardo Galeano.
-
Socrates: Faith
“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.” ~Socrates
-
Muhammad Ali: Just a job
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” ~Muhammad Ali
-
Octavio Paz: Language
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears. -Octavio Paz, poet, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1914-1998)
-
Victor Hugo: Evil
“Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. ” ~Victor Hugo
-
Albert Ellis: Love and persistence
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence. ” ~Albert Ellis
-
Alexandre Dumas: Generalizations
“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. ” Alexandre Dumas
-
Rabindranath Tagore: Freedom
“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.” ~Rabindranath Tagore.
-
John Lennon: Peace and television sets
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” ~John Lennon.
-
Joseph Conrad: Gossip
“Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.” ~Joseph Conrad.
-
Unknown: Great opportunity
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” ~Unknown
-
Johnson: Ignorance
“Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.” ~Johnson
-
Albert Camus: Ridiculous beginning
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. ” ~Albert Camus
-
Marcus Aurelius: Begin
“Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ” ~ Marcus Aurelius
-
William Blake: Heights
“No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.” ~William Blake
-
William Arthur Ward: The best in ourselves
“When we seek out the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” ~William Arthur Ward.
-
Soren Aaby Kierkegaard: Life
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” ~Soren Aaby Kierkegaard
-
George Washington: Conscience
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. ” George Washington
-
Henley Gibble: Finishing
“Running the marathon gave me an inner strength that changed my life…just finishing can have a profound effect on your confidence and self-esteem.” ~Henley Gibble
-
Lillian Hellman: Agreeable injustice?
“Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?” -Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)
-
Hermann Hesse: Sinister
“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” ~Herman Hesse.
-
Arthur Baer: Good neighbour
“A good neighbour is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it.” ~Arthur Baer
-
Margaret Chase Smith: Moral cowardice
“Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. ” Margaret Chase Smith
-
Dagobert D. Runes: Common hatred, not common love
“Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.” Dagobert D. Runes
-
Grandpappy O'Donnell: Any fool can be happy…
“…any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ~Grandpappy O’Donnell
-
Salman Rushdie: Books
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. -Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 1947)
-
Guy Debord: Quotations
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. —Guy Debord
-
Henry Wadsworth: Sad, not cold
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth
-
Mandell Creighton: Doing good
“No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. ” —Mandell Creighton.
-
James Harrington: The Law
“The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men. ” James Harrington
-
Andy Rooney: Computers and paper
“Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads. ” Andy Rooney
-
Bradley Whitford: Life
“Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us. The joy is in the journey.”– Bradley Whitford, American actor.
-
Oscar Wilde: Popularity
“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.” —Oscar Wilde.
-
James Ramsey: Reason against unreason
“Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.” James Ramsey
