Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As a punishment for refusing to serve in the army, poet Robert Lowell was imprisoned for five months by the U.S. courts. While waiting to be transferred to Connecticut to serve the sentence, Lowell spent a few days in New York's West Street Jail. During his stay there he was put in a cell next to Louie Lepke, a convicted member of Murder Incorporated. "I'm in for killing," Lepke told the poet. "What are you in for?" Lowell answered, "Oh, I'm in for refusing to kill. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. —Colman McCarthy More about this quote Tags: war fear meat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used. . . . Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. —Gil Bailie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. —Steven Wright More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can get a whole lot more done with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone. —Al Capone More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. —Russell Hoban More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: now happiness good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by. —Elizabeth Bishop More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. —Zora Neale Hurston More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you are not happy, act the happy man. Happiness will come later. So also with faith. If you are in despair, act as though you believe. Faith will come afterwards. —Isaac Bashevis Singer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. —Hafiz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. —Henry Ward Beecher More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how . . . and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss, and if you have any sense you ought to kill yourself on the spot and be done with it. —Henry Miller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. —Jeanette Winterson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email