Mohandas Gandhi
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always. "
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Albert Einstein
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Edward Everett Hale
"I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
Margaret Mead
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
D. Elton Trueblood
"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. "
Buddha
"There is only one time
when it is essential to awaken.
That time is now."
"The thought manifests as the word; the word manifests as the deed; the deed develops into habit; and habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings."
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
"Never give up
No matter what is going on
Never give up
Develop the heart
Too much energy in your country is spent
developing the mind instead of the heart
Develop the heart,
Be compassionate
Not just to your friends but to everyone,
be compassionate
Work for peace in your heart and in the world
Work for peace, and I say again
Never give up
No matter what is happening
No matter what is going on around you
Never give up."
Martin Luther King Jr.
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions.
This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.
A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.
Margaret Chase Smith
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way.
Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
really good quotes lwb.. thanks.
I think the nature of the author of these words is rare enough (among world leaders) for it to be obvious which world leader spoke these words so there is no need for me to mention his/her name.
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
"This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. "
"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. "
"That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hiring somebody's son. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted -- or at least, most of the time. "
[His beautiful words may be true though clearly doesn't believe them himself.].
"Two for one pizzas are a rip." -- Aristotle
"You know, there's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit.
But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit -- the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us -- the child who's hungry, the steelworker who's been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town.
When you think like this -- when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers -- it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help."
Barack Obama
[I think he just paraphrased Einstein, Ghandi and Buddha to trick the world.]
--Charlie Chaplin
--Hunter S. Thompson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjqwWwi-IWw
"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs."
Larry, brother of Darrel and his other brother Darrel.
"L'homme est périssable, il se peut. Mais périssons en résistant et si le néant nous est réservé, faisons que ce soit une injustice." From the Journal of Sénancourt. Please excuse my clunky translation: "It may be that man must perish. But let us perish in the act of resisting, and if the void awaits us, let us live so it is an injustice."
"ope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." Vaclav Havel, "The Politics of Hope" from Disturbing the Peace. I found this quotation posted on a wall of the cancer post-op floor in Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.l
--Charlie Chaplin
--Hunter S. Thompson
Aha! Another babbler who appreciates true artistic genus. The world would be so much poorer without Chaplins and Thomsons, true creators of human wealth.
"The Mother is reacting..
To me it's not a negative thing to know that there will be great changes.
When you look at it as evolution,
It's time... Nothing stays the same."
Floyd Red Crow Westerman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCnWZncHH2Y&feature=player_embedded#at=30...
"There is no escaping the cross. The devil of social injustice goeth not out but by grappling with the fundamental issues. This generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall be no sign given it but the sign of the prophet Marx. Until Christians learn to understand and apply the lessons of Marxism they cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven - nor, probably, can anyone else."
- Eugene Forsey, "A New Economic Order" (1936)
'The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed.'
-- Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator (1940)
'Why the hell does everybody want to succeed? I'd like to meet somebody who wanted to fail. That's the only sublime thing.'
-- Stan Emery in Manhattan Transfer (1925), John Dos Passos
'Whenever there’s a sex scandal, I feel sorry for sex.'
-- Lauren Berlant
'Look now, today, people are persuaded that they are freer than ever before, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet.'
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1881)
Interviewer: "Do you believe that American capitalism is doomed to inevitable failure and collapse?"
John Dos Passos: "Sure, but the question is when. We've got the failure, at least from my point of view. What I don't see is the collapse."
'What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.'
--A.A. Milne