The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any. —Ruth Wolff More about this quote Tags: morality conscience direction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is one thing to decry the rat race. … That is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further — that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite; it makes the rebuke personal; the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine. —Paul Gruchow More about this quote Tags: morality politeness rat race quitting individualism offense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Right livelihood is not just a philosophical ideal. It is a practical, achievable reality. Finding and maintaining right livelihood does require regular, consistent action, but the steps are clear and the results immediate. —Claude Whitmyer More about this quote Tags: action reality philosophy livelihood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. —Harriet Lerner More about this quote Tags: politics change social change political change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be a consumer is the most primitive level of being. It is to be a mouth, an eater, a devourer of things. To discover the truth of who we are, we must discard the consumer mentality and reclaim our spiritual dignity. —David Frawley More about this quote Tags: spirituality discovery dignity consumer mouth mentality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm what you call a teleological existential atheist. I believe there's an intelligence to the universe with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: humor intelligence atheism New Jersey Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: delusion progress destruction environmentalism environment restlessness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In America the word revolution is used to sell pantyhose. —Rita Mae Brown More about this quote Tags: USA revolution pantyhose Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are usually right. —Eugene V. Debs More about this quote Tags: history progress wrong right morality change principles majority Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the virtue and the pathos of man that he aspires endlessly toward a better world; it is his weakness and his tragedy that he does nothing to bring such a world even one step nearer. —Ludwig Lewisohn More about this quote Tags: virtue weakness world tragedy pathos Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. —Mary Ellen Kelly More about this quote Tags: perception culture scorn Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth. —Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle More about this quote Tags: truth love happiness luxury Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: honesty truth others deception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. —Zelda Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: love acceptance heart Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. —Robert Byrne More about this quote Tags: action time quality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email