Quotes For You

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. - James Madison

...Violence as a way of gaining power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security... - Alfred Adler

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. - Plato

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. - Leo Tolstoy

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time -- for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. -T.S. Eliot

Peace is constructed, not fought for. - Brent Davis

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - Wiliam Butler Yeats

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. - Rene Descartes

Herein lies the tragedy: not that men are poor--all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked--who is good? Not that men are ignorant --what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. -W.E.B. Du Bois

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget. -Arundhati Roy

It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. - Theodore Roosevelt

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read. - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)

There seems to be so much sorrow on the planet. Can you work within the framework of the test before you? Can you put on your armor and shields of sacredness and walk through the sorrow, fear and disappointment of what other Humans have done, without judgment of them or without being discouraged? The more light you carry, the more you will see that which is sorrowful on Earth. Only the masters can "see" these things as reasonable within the scheme of why you're here. It is important that the Lighthouses are not distracted by the storms as they shine their lights. Otherwise, they become useless. -Kryon Channelling: Where is Aunt Martha

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. - Ernie Pyle, wartime correspondent

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

We all have inconveniences of one kind or another. How you deal with them determines how successful you are. - Craig McFarlane

There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton

Security is not born of inexhaustible wealth, but of unconquerable faith. - Spencer W. Kimball

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him. - Aldous Huxley

Nothing is too late 'till the tired heart shall cease to palpate. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To become an expert in any human activity, it takes practice, practice, practice. - Napoleon Hill

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. -Persian Proverb

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lambardi

The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and co-operate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong! - George Elliott

A singer cannot delight you with his singing unless he himself delights to sing. -Khalil Gabran

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. - From The Dead Poets Society

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen Today. - Mark Twain

Our deepest fear is NOT that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God: your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. - Nelson Mandela

Each human mind is a galaxy of intelligences, wherein shines the light of a billion stars. - Timothy Ferris

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils. - Thucydides

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions. - Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. - Marcus Aurelius

The official policy of the government (of Israel) is unequivocal. Arabs, like the Jews in Nazi Germany, are officially 'class B' citizens, a fact which is recorded on their identity cards. - Derek Tozer, Israeli writer

I am a black South African and if I were to change names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events in South Africa. - Bishop Desmond Tutu

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison

But at least let us have no more nonsense about defending liberty against Fascism. If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. The common people still vaguely subscribe to that doctrine and act on it… it is the liberals who fear liberty and the intellectuals who want to do dirt on the intellect... - George Orwell , Preface to Animal Farm

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. - Bishop Desmond Tutu

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. - Mahatma Gandhi

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. - George Orwell

Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely. - Senator Robert M. La Follette

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. - General Douglas MacArthur

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. - Albert Camus

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village. - Voltaire

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. - Robert Lynd

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit. - Thucydides

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. - Noam Chomsky

A general dissolution of Principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader… If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security. - Samuel Adams, American Patriot & Politician

After every "victory" you have more enemies. - Jeanette Winterson

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. - General Smedley Butler

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. - Edward R. Murrow

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. - Frederick Douglass

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official... - Theodore Roosevelt

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all. - Tacitus

The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. - Major Ralph Peters, US Military

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people. - John T. Flynn

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. - Marie Beyle

Man was/is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One who believes himself the master of others is nonetheless a greater slave than they. - Jean Jacques Rousseau

Our children are not born to hate, they are raised to hate. - Thomas della Peruta