Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. —Josh Billings More about this quote Tags: power silence argument refutation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: memory effort fanaticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never want to love someone like that, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn’t be able to survive if he left me. —Jean Kwok in Girl in Translation More about this quote Tags: love want Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Instead of bucking your head against a stone wall … sit quietly with hands folded and wait for the wall to crumble. If you're willing to wait an eternity, it may happen in the twinkling of an eye. For walls often give way quicker than the proud spirit which rules us. Don't sit and pray that it will happen! Just sit and watch it happen. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: patience pride eternity waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Tags: action soul sentiment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: hope freedom change improvement guarantee Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. —Marcus Aurelius More about this quote Tags: politics perfection progress change Plato Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The meeting of a customer and a clerk across the service counter in a store is as significant as two leaders of nations meeting over a conference table in search of peace. If peace and understanding is possible, it must occur in the moment that is present. It can occur only when relationship is real and unconditional. Relationship begins with thoughtless awareness, an openness that sees and hears with humility, and a consideration that has already forgiven all things that the mind might present as a barrier to unity. —Booker Jones More about this quote Tags: awareness forgiveness peace relationship humility business service significance consideration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. —Stanislaus Jerzy Lee More about this quote Tags: responsibility metaphor snow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For evil to succeed, all it needs is for good men to do nothing. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: success evil inaction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is sacred about all of our lives, even those of us who would never dream of using such a word for it, is that God speaks to us through what happens to us — even through such unpromising events as walking up the road to get the mail out of the mailbox, maybe, or seeing something in the news that brings you up short, or laughing yourself silly with a friend. If skeptics ask to be shown an instance of God speaking to them in their lives, I suggest that they pay closer attention to the next time when, for unaccountable reasons, they find tears in their eyes. —Frederick Buechner More about this quote Tags: attention life God skepticism sacredness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact we can see. And the more selfish we remain and self-centered, the more selfish our way of life is, the lonelier we feel and the more miserable. This is also a fact we can see. —14th Dalai Lama More about this quote Tags: life others loneliness heart selfishness care welfare benefit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital? —Shirley Ann Grau More about this quote Tags: politics capital highways roads Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America: a country where everything is done to prove life isn't tragic. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: USA tragedy proof Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I look at the politics of this country as a game that is played on the people, this illusion of choice. It's interesting that the important things have been reduced in number: oil companies, communications, pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking, accounting, all these firms have been merged and reduced. The choices are very limited. But if you want a bagel, we've got twenty-six flavors. There are four hundred kinds of mustard in this country. These are the illusions of choice. I don't really think choice is here to any substantive degree. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: justice politics choice irony banking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email