This is what the world honors: wealth, eminence, long life, a good name. This is what the world finds happiness in: a life of ease, rich food, fine clothes, beautiful sights, sweet sounds. People who can't get these things fret a great deal and are afraid, wear themselves out rushing around on business, spend night and day scheming and scrutinizing. Man lives his life in company with worry, and if he lives a long time, then he has spent that much time worrying. This is a callous way to treat the body. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Tags: life fear ease clothes happiness wealth worry business honor food Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. —Homer Simpson More about this quote Tags: belief lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and this will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: justice power wrong tyranny resistance demands submission Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. —Pearl Bailey More about this quote Tags: hunger learning violence producing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's always been and always will be the same in the world: the horse does the work, and the coachman is tipped. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: power work animals control enslavement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Duke of Cambridge protested that he wasn't arguing against change. He favored it, he said, when there was no alternative. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: politics change argument conservatism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When ideas go unexamined and unchallenged for a long enough time, certain things happen. They become mythological, and they become very, very powerful. They create conformity. They intimidate. —E. L. Doctorow More about this quote Tags: power ideas myth conformity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. —Michael Winner More about this quote Tags: effort control team Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as "sentimental," "impractical," or "womanish" . . . by those whose fun, profit, or convenience was at stake. —Joan Gilbert More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You may break any written law in America with impunity. There is an unwritten law that you break at your peril. It is: do not attack the profit system. —Mary Heaton Vorse More about this quote Tags: politics law USA capitalism profit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As a father taking his very well-brought-up young daughter to the opera for the first time, Peter Ustinov was unwise enough to choose the Baths of Caracall in Rome. The opera was Aida: during one particular scene the whole stage seemed to be covered with animals — camels, elephants, horses, unwanted cats, and so on. At a climactic point, almost all the animals relieved themselves simultaneously. As he stared aghast at this incredible sight, Ustinov felt a light tapping on his shoulder and heard his daughter's earnest voice: "Daddy, is it all right if I laugh? —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven. —Louise Nevelson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To embrace the child may threaten the adult who values information above wonder, entertainment above play, and intelligence above ignorance. If we were really to care for the child, we would have to face our own lower natures — our indomitable emotions, our insane desires, and the vast range of our incapacity. —Thomas Moore More about this quote Tags: emotions intelligence children information care adults Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Now I see the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Tags: freedom earth sleep air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sun, each second, transforms 4 million tons of itself into light. . . . Human generosity is possible only because at the center of the solar system a magnificent stellar generosity pours forth free energy day and night without stop and without complaint and without the slightest hesitation. —Brian Swimme More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email