Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. —Ivern Ball More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused. . . . If one feels that there is nothing "we" can do — but who is that "we"? — and nothing "they" can do either — and who are "they"? — then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic —Susan Sontag More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights. —Pearl S. Buck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done. —Author unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You must begin by assuming responsibility. And you alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry More about this quote Tags: life ownership resposibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. —Terry Hands More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. —Rebecca West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. —W. Edwards Deming More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think we risk becoming the best-informed society that has ever died of ignorance. —Rubén Blades More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now: . . . there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know . . . ," and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. —David Foster Wallace More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: friends family loyalty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: politics power enemies change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: politics power language decisions propaganda consumption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. —Longchenpa More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One day a man approached Ikkyu and asked: "Master, will you please write for me some maxims of the highest wisdom?" Ikkyu took his brush and wrote: "Attention." "Is that all?" asked the man. Ikkyu then wrote: "Attention. Attention." "Well," said the man, "I really don't see much depth in what you have written." Then Ikkyu wrote the same word three times: "Attention. Attention. Attention." Half angered, the man demanded: "What does that word attention mean, anyway?" Ikkyu gently responded, "Attention means attention. —The Little Zen Companion More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email