The most violent element in society is ignorance. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: politics ignorance society violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the solution to a problem of absolute disagreement extends to a call for bloodshed, then neither party has demonstrated the intelligence to formulate the question properly. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: war wisdom intelligence disagreement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They say, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” But I think the guns help. Just standing there saying, “Bang!” doesn’t really hurt anybody. —Eddie Izzard More about this quote Tags: politics humor guns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. —Horace Mann More about this quote Tags: politics opinion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. —Marshall Rosenberg More about this quote Tags: war pain violence insult injury Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: intelligence knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: understanding ignorance intelligence knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the road is easy, you’re likely going the wrong way. —Terry Goodkind in The Sword of Truth More about this quote Tags: life ease Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are always the same age inside. —Gertrude Stein More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. —Leo Buscaglia More about this quote Tags: love life Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. —Niels Bohr More about this quote Tags: truth wisdom knowledge fact Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. —Amanda Cross More about this quote Tags: quotation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory. —Sam Savage in Firmin More about this quote Tags: existence memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. —Cato the Elder More about this quote Tags: history memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email