Quotes For You

Truth never damages a cause that is just. - Mohandas K. Gandhi "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Truth is the glue that holds government together. -- Gerald R. Ford, Speech, 9 Aug. 1974, on succeeding Richard Nixon as president.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. - Winston Churchill

A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends. - Caryl P. Haskins, Scientist & Author

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. - Matthew Arnold "Sohrab and Rustum"

When shall it be said in any country of the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes not oppressive; the rational world is my friend because I am friend of its happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and government. -Thomas Paine

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. - Rene Dubois, Celebrations of Life, 1981

What will our children remember of us, ten, fifteen years from now? The mobile we bought or didn't buy? Or the tone in our voices, the look in our eyes, the enthusiasm for life - and for them - that we felt? They, and we, will remember the spirit of things, not the letter. Those memories will go so deep that no one could measure it, capture it, bronze it, or put it in a scrapbook. -Sonia Taitz

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. -Anthony Robbins

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. -Albert Einstein

Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift. -Oprah Winfrey

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you. - Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine, Feb. 18, 2003)

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe--though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now because it's in the past, because we have survived. -Susan Sontag

It is the rare person who, looking back over his life and seeing what he has done to it, hasn't sighed for a chance to redeem what he has cheaply used or carelessly ruined. If only somehow, somewhere, there was a way to live again the days we have darkened with our blind haste - the innumerable occasions when our indifference trod on all the pearls of God's graciousness; the times when our pride, or our fear, or our meanness poured the acid of contempt over the fair countenance of another's soul! If this grace were ours, how we would leap to the chance! -Samuel Howard Miller (The Life of the Soul)

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. -Anais Ninn

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. -William James

You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should. - Max Ehrmann, American philosopher

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. - Benito Mussolini

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. -Charles Caleb Colton

The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses. -Ed Crane, one of the 85 founders of the Libertarian Party

What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature. -Voltaire

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose. -Immanuel Kant, Prussian Philosopher (1724-1804)

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures. -William James

Life is eternal, Love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. -Rossiter W. Raymond

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom. -Alice Walker, Author of The Color Purple

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade. -Constance Baker Motley