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Please note that quotes from the following individuals are on their own pages:
These can be found here. These people are so incredible that they all got their own pages.
All of my religious quotes are on a different page which can be found here.
John Denver
If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance
of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.
Jane Goodall
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Maori Proverb
If you were to ask me what the most important thing in the world today was,
it is people, it is people, it is people.
Victor Frankl
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through
the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may
have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can
be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's
attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
Jimmy Carter
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary,
it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
J. Michael Straczynski ( in Babylon 5) NEW
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition,
to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or
where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.
Glen L. Pace NEW
Programs blindly followed bring us to a discipline of doing good, but principles
properly understood and practiced bring us to a disposition to do good.
George Carlin
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
E.P. Walker
There is nothing worth preserving at the expense of the truth.
Aristotle
It is not enough to win the war; it is more important to organize
the peace.
John Donne
Who can remove from that bell [for the dying] which is passing a piece of himself
out of this world? No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece
of the continent, a part of the main. . . . Any man’s death diminishes
me, . . . and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls
for thee.
Carl Rogers, widley considered the father
of humanistic psychology
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am,
then I can change
Theodore Roosevelt
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to
stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree
in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar
as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to
the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand
by the country.
Attributed to Julius Caesar
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip
the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged
sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the
drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the
mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry.
Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer
up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this
is what I have done. And I am Caesar.
Pope John Paul II
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are
pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their
hearts and become selfish.
Winston Churchill
To every man there comes . . . that special moment when he is
figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance
to do a special thing unique to him and fitted to his talent. What a tragedy
if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for
the work which would be his finest hour.
Dwight Eisenhower, in 1960,
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in a final sense the theft from those who hunger
and are not fed-- those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms
is not spending money alone-- it is spending the sweat
of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the houses of its
children.
Douglas Adams (in "Last Chance to See")
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn
from the experience of others, are also remarkable for
their apparent disinclination to do so.
Pope John Paul II
War is a defeat for humanity.
Robert F. Kennedy
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly
Margarate Mead
Never doubt that a small group of comitted individuals can change
the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Che Guevara
Always be capable of feeling ... any injustice comitted against
anyone anywhere in the world.
Arthur Ashe
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass
all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its
original dimensions.
Prof. Sudweeks
Money doesn't change you, it just reveals you to yourself.
Gen. George Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and
they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Harry Truman
I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among
so-called Christians.
Alice, Alice in Wonderland
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different
person then.
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The happiest people don't neccssiarly have the best of evething,
they just make the most of everything.
Robert F. Kennedy
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each
of us can work to change a small portion of events and in total of all those
acts will be written the history of this generation.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We flatter those we scarcely know. We please the fleeting guest, and deal full
many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best.
Anne Frank
Its difficult times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within
us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all
my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because
I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
Jimmy Carter
We'll never know whether something new and wonderful is possible unless we try.
Let's scratch our heads, stretch our minds, be adventurous! Serve God with boldness,
and who knows what wonders the Lord may work?
Eric Hoffer
In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the learned will
find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Albert Einstein, in a letter to Otto Juliusburger
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else,
do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never
cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we
were born.
Anonymous -- Written on a wall in a concentration camp
I believe in the sun when it is not shining. I believe in love
even when I feel it not. I believe in God even when He
is silent.
Mark Twain
It is curious -- curious that physical courage should be so common
in the world, and moral courage so rare.
William Shakespeare (Hamlet, I, iii)
To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the day the night,
thou canst not then be false to any man.
Albert Einstein
What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity
truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
Richard Nixon
Always remember that others may hate you, but those who hate you
don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Albert Einstein
The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority
that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and
acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
Yoda
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads
to suffering...
Les Miserables (Broadway Musical Version)
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse
to see it tried on him personally.
17 Rabbis who came to support Martin Luther King Jr, June,
1964
We came because we know that second only to silence, the greatest
danger to humanity is loss of faith in humanity's capacity
to act.
Richard Nixon
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished
when he quits.
Sir Galahad
My strength is as the strength of ten men because my
heart is pure.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and
hang on.
John F. Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.
Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed
us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to
forgo their use.
Hellen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed
to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human
spirit.
David O. McKay
Tell me what you think about when you do not have to
think, and I will tell you what you are.
Harry S Truman
I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and
they think it is hell.
John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end
to mankind.
Booker T. Washington
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one
has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome.
John Locke
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge
of it.
E.H. Chapin
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the
most massive characters are sheared with scars.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible
worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Theodore Roosevelt
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in
unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Chief Seattle
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth
befalls the children of the Earth.
Albert Einstein
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology
has exceeded our humanity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
John F. Kennedy
Change is the law. And those who look only to the past or present
are certain to miss the future.
Abigail Van Buren
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people
who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who
can’t fight back.
Lt. Colonel Claus Phillip Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
(1907-1944),
who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler
Better I be a traitor to my country than a traitor to my conscience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Albert Einstein
One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries
of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly,
and try another. But by all means, try something.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Freedom is indivisible...When one man is enslaved, all are not
free.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Citing from the Hindu text The Bhaghavad-Gita, after witnessing
the testing of the world s first atomic bomb. ) I am become
death, destroyer of worlds.
Bill Clinton
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews
and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats,
and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those
who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future
and those who cling to the past. Between those who open
their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
Marton Niemoller,
German Lutheran pastor speaking about the Holocaust.
In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I
didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for
the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t
a Catholic. Then they came for me - and by that time there was nobody left
to speak up.
Tatanka Yotanka (Sitting Bull)
When I was a boy, the Lakota owned the world. The sun
rose and set on their land. They sent ten
thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who
slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? What
white man can say I ever stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say
I am a thief. What white woman, however lonely, was
ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left
me unfed? Who has ever seen me beat my wives or abuse my
children? What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to
love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Lakota?
Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would
die for my people and my country?
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of
opportunity open wider for every other American.
Albert Einstein
There are two things which are infinite: the universe and
human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former.
C.S. Lewis
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
General Douglas McArthur
Some have said that I am in effect a war monger. Nothing could
be farther from the truth. I know war as few other
men now living know it and find it revolting. I have long advocated its
complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both
friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international
disputes. Indeed, on the second day of September, 1945,
just following the surrender of the Japanese nation on
the battleship Missouri, I formally cautioned as follows:
"Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. Various
methods through the ages have been attempted to
devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations.
From the very start workable methods were found in so far as individual citizens
were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international
scope have never been successful. Military alliances, balances of power,
leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of
the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war now blocks out this alternative.
We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable
system, our Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological
and involves a spiritual recrudescence, an improvement of human character that
will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature,
and all material and cultural developments of the past two thousand years. It
must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh."
John Lewis
President of the United Mine Workers Testifying Before Congress,
1948
If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine
that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert
that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service,
because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men first
and we owe security for their families if they die. I say
it, I voice it, I proclaim it and I care not who in heaven or hell opposes it.
Dwight Eisenhower
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition
of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial
complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and
will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our
liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only
an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge
industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals,
so that security and liberty may prosper together.
James E. Talmage
Are fire and sword the weapons with which truth fights
her battles?
Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.
Tour guide at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
And I maintain that physicists are nothing more than big children.
When you were 5, and you wanted to see what was inside
your matchbox cars, you would smash them together. That is exactly what
we are doing here.
John Gay
While there is life there's hope...
Helen Keller
Although the world is filled with suffering... it is
also filled with overcoming it.
The Doctor (Doctor Who)
Humans have an infinite capacity for self delusion, matched only
by their ingenuity when trying to destroy themselves.
Unknown 5th Grader
When people run around and around in circles, we say they are
crazy. When planets do it, we say they are orbiting.
Bill Gates
With world health, every life you save is a wonderful thing,
so it's not this question of whether you solve it or you don't. The chance of
completely solving the problems has long odds. But really, the thing is that
you get to save the first child, the second child, the third child. You can
just feel good about that.
The Doctor (Doctor Who) NEW
In all my travelling throughout the universe I have battled
against evil, against power mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The
oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power mad
conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans... Cybermen, they're still in the nursery compared
to us. Ten million years of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really
corrupt.
David Foley (Kids in the Hall)
Why don't we (aliens) abduct their religious or political
leaders instead of some idiot in a pick up truck?
Q (Star Trek)
It (the universe) is wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires
both subtle and gross, but it is not for the timid.
William Wallace (Braveheart)
Every man dies, not every man really lives.