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'It is better to be violent if their is violence in your heart then to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.'
-Mahatma Gandhi

'I object to violence. Because when it appears to do good the good it does is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent.'
-Mahatma Gandhi

'Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.'
-Mahatma Gandhi

'Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.'
-President John F. Kennedy

'In the end it is not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years'
-Abraham Lincoln

'Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.'
-Albert Enisteien


'Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.'
-Colman McCarthy

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.'
Padmè Amidala

'They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.'
-Benjamin Franklin

'There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.'
-Alexander Hamilton

'I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending to small a degree of it.'
-Thomas Jefferson

'An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it'
-Orlando A. Battista

'The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of it's attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trail of adversity.'
-George Washington

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
-Patrick Henry

'A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.'
-Alexander Hamilton

'A promise must never been broken.'
-Alexander Hamilton

'A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.'
-Alexander Hamilton

'Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.'
-John Adams

‎'What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not.'
-John Adams

'The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem. It is generally employed only by small children and large nations.'
-David Friedman

'I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask 'Mom, what was war?'
-Eve Merriam

'Where liberty dwells, there is my home.'
-Benjamin Franklin

'Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.'
-George Washington

'For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.'
-Stuart Chase

'As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?'
-President John Adams

'Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.'
-Mahatma Gandhi

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors'
-Thomas Jefferson

'We have it in our power to begin the world over again.'
-Thomas Paine

'There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.'
-Thomas Paine

'The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.'
-Thomas Paine

'When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.'
-Thomas Paine

'When the people fear the government there is tyranny. We the government fears the people there is liberty.'
-Thomas Jefferson

'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely'
-Lord Acton

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them.'
-Rose Kennedey.

'In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.'
-George Orwell

'No man needs a vacation so much as the man that has just had one.'
-Elbert Hubbard

'The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, its the trotured who turn into troturers.'
-Carl Jung

'A belief is not merely an idea that the mind possess. It is an ideal that possess the mind.'
-Robert Oxton Bolton

'Idealogy seperates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.'
-Eugene Ionesco

'The bitterest tears that are shade over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
-Harriet B. Stowe

'Try again. Fail again. Fail better.'
-Samuel Beckett

'Try not. Do or do not'
-Yoda

'When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.'
-Friedrich Nietzsche

'Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. '
-William Faulkner

'Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. '
-Samuel Johnson

'Don't forget that I cannot see myself. That role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror. '
-Jacques Rigaut

'When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.'
-Euripides

'When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, nor worthiness. '
-Euripides

'The irrationality of a thing is not of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. '
-Friedrich Nietzsche

'Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable '
-William Shakespeare

'The question that some times drives me hazy: Am I or the others crazy. '
-Albert Einstein

'Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed. . . And eats at our tables. '
-W.H. Auden

'Unfortunately a super abundance of dreams is paid for growing potential for nightmares.'
-Sir Peter Ustion

'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.'
-Confucius

'In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. '
-Sir Francis Bacon

'Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness. '
-W.H. Auden

'A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know .'
-Diane Arbus

'Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. '
-Anthony Brady

'There are some that employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. '
-Voltaire

'We are accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. '
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld

'Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.'
-Albert Einstein

'The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.'
-Francois de la Roche Foucauld

'It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.'
-Rose Kennedy

'The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.'
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

'Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.'
-Mark Twain

'Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.'
-Khalil Gibran

'Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.'
-Oscar Wilde

'The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.'
-Milan Kundera

'Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.'
-Helen Keller

'We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.'
-Plato

'It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.'
-John Wooden

'The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate.'
-Erich Fromm

'Crime butchers innocents to secure a prize. And innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.'
-Maximilien Robespierre

'If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.'
-Elbert Hubbard

'Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.'
-Dale Turner

'In order to learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear.'
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.'
-T.S. Eliot

'Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends.'
-T.S. Eliot

'All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.'
-Cory Doctorow

'Evil brings men together.'
-Aristotle

‘There is not a righteous man on Earth who does what is right and never sins.'
-Ecclesiastes 7:20

'From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.'
-Socrates

'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.'
-Thomas Paine

'Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.'
-Robert Kennedy

'The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.'
-John Calvin

'Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.'
-Mahatma Ghandi

'There can be no good without evil.'
-Russian proverb

'Happy familys are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'
- Leo Tolstoy

'One man's wilderness is another man's theme park.'
- Unknown

'Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.'
-James Anthony Froud

'Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.'
-Herman Melville

'Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles.'
-Charles Chaplin

'I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.'
-Oscar Wilde

'Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.'
-George Washington

'He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.'
-Philosopher Lao Tzu

'You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.'
-Eleanor Roosevelt

'In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though it's intimate and psychological; resistant to generalization; a mystery of the individual's soul.'
-Barbara Ehrenreich

'Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him.'
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

'Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.'
-G.K. Chesterton

'An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.'
-Martin Luther

'Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.'
-Francisco Goya

'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'
-Thomas Deloney

'Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.'
-William Shakespeare

'The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.'
-Frank Miller

'A simple child that lightly draws it's breath and feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?'
-Wordsworth

'No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.'
-Daisy Bates

'For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.'
-Lucy Maud Montgomery

'...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.'
-Neuroscientist, Dr. R. Joseph

'There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.'
-Arthur Rubinstei

'The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.'
-Ben Okri

'A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.'
-John Steinbeck

'We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.'
-Tom Stoppard

'There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.'

'If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.'
-John Churton Collins

'All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another.'
-Anatole France

'What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.'
-William Wordsworth

'The past is our definition. we may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.'
-Wendell Berry

'To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.'
-Benjamin Franklin

'Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it.'
-Ayn Rand

'Plenty sit still. Hunger is a wanderer.'
-Zulu proverb

'Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest response.'
-Amos Bronson Alcott

'I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.'
-Bob Dylan

'There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.'
-Gilbert Parker

'Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles...'
-Mark Twain

'Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.'
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

'The minute people fall in love, they become liars.'
-Harlan Ellison

'Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.'
-P.J. O'Rourke

'No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.'
-Sigmund Freud

'Delay is the deadliest form of denial.'
-British Historian C. Northcote Parkinson

'There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.'
-Winston Churchill

'The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.'
-Mario Puzo

'And so, all the night-tide, I lay down by the side. Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. In the sepulchre there by the sea. In her tomb by the sounding sea.'
-Edgar Allan Poe (this is from his poem, 'Annabel Lee').

'I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.'
-Albert Einstein

'In youth we learn; in age we understand.'
-Austrian novelist, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

'He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.'
-Leonardo Da Vinci

'We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out.'
-Tennessee Williams

'I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way to love.'
-Francoise Sagan

'Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.'
-Terry Pratchett

'Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.'
-Stephen King

'Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.'
-Andre Maurois

'No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.'
-George Chakiris

'Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.'
- Helen Keller

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