Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. —Franz Kafka More about this quote Tags: right morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. —Henri Frederic Amiel More about this quote Tags: humanity intelligence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself. —Peter da Silva More about this quote Tags: wit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. —Margaret Thatcher More about this quote Tags: politics patience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: wonder knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We teach people how to treat us. If you don’t settle for anything less than respect, that’s what you’ll get. But if you let the douchebags walk all over you and treat you like you’re disposable, then that’s what you’ll always get. —Kristen Proby in Play With Me More about this quote Tags: relationships respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. —Robert Brault More about this quote Tags: recognition acknowledgment anonymity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. —Lewis B. Smedes More about this quote Tags: forgiveness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison. —Nelson Mandela More about this quote Tags: freedom prison hatred Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Characteristically, it is when a man is at the end of his strength and endurance, but nevertheless holds on, that the transforming symbol floats into consciousness. —P.W. Martin More about this quote Tags: strength transformation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity. —Howard Zinn More about this quote Tags: humanity prison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for twenty-five years, he was released in 1990, and he hasn’t reoffended. I think he’s going straight, which shows you prison does work. —Ricky Gervais More about this quote Tags: prison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world. —Michelle Alexander More about this quote Tags: justice politics crime USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they’ve got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates. —Josephine Lawrence More about this quote Tags: hatred racism race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email