It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
-Ansel Adams, photographer (1902-1984)
...most wonderful
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
-Emo Phillips, comedian, actor (b. 7 Feb 1956)
not a free...
A hungry man is not a free man.
- Adlai Stevenson II, lawyer, politician, and diplomat (1900-1965)
- Adlai Stevenson II, lawyer, politician, and diplomat (1900-1965)
Meaning of life...
" The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
~ Nelson Henderson
...refuse to answer
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
-Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal (1902-2003)
some thing to change
Most people never break through because they keep waiting for something to change… instead of changing themselves.
...genius??
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
-Gertrude Stein, novelist, poet, and playwright (1874-1946)
lack of patriotism
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
-Hermann Göring, Nαzi military leader (1893-1946)
Test of progress
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)
Poor Vs Rich
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.
-Norman Mailer, author (1923-2007)
for the sake of...
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
-Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
acceptable response
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
-Colette, author (1873-1954)
..through the eyes of
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
-Ellen DeGeneres, comedian, TV host, actor, and writer (b. 26 Jan 1958)
cunning men
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
-Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
ways of spreading light
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-Edith Wharton, novelist (1861-1937)
-Edith Wharton, novelist (1861-1937)
...same interest?
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
-Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (1783-1842)
miracles have...
In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
-Ethan Allen, revolutionary (1738-1789)
10000 : 1
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
-Joan Baez, musician (b. 9 Jan 1941)
live in an infantile
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
-Bill Maher, comedian, actor, and writer (b. 20 Jan 1956)
accepts a smaller
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
-Jane Welsh Carlyle, letter writer (1801-1866)
We do & do not do
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
-Moliere, actor and playwright (1622-1673)
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