Quotes I like

1) "People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."-Hermann Hesse.

2) "Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. That is a fault."-Oscar Wilde

3) "Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."

4) "Life is difficult."-Scott Peck

5) "Success can take you where character can not sustain you."

6) "Religion is like a computer program...with a Virus."-Richard Downing

7) "The "Church" breeds people for the same reason a dog breeder breeds dogs, for PROFIT. The homosexual is not hated for being homosexual, he's hated because he is of no use to the breeder."-Richard Downing

8) "It takes a fine tuned sprit to be able to look upon the afflicted without flinching."

9) "When I can't find my ignorance I have lost my wisdom."

10) "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."-Isaac Asimov

11) "Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear."-Mother Teresa

12) "Waste not, want not."

13) "You can kill the messenger, but you can not kill the message."

14) "Moral Indignation is jealousy with a halo."-H.G. Wells

15) "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."-John Kenneth Galbraith

16) "There is no greater affliction to bare then to inherit or adopt antoher's beliefs or religion instead of putting forth the effort to embark on your own journey."-Richard Downing

17) "Freedom is NOT free."

18) "Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."-Leo Buscaglia

19) "The small Hitlers are around us every day."-Robert Payne

20) "My insanity is NOT a testimony of your mental health, your crazy and don't even know it, what fun is that?"-Richard Downing

21) "I am a Force to be reckoned with, I have been loved by the strongest of the strong and injured by the weakest of the weak."-Richard Downing

22) "We must learn the power of living with our helplessness."Book-No Hidden Meanings

23) "Each of us is ultimately alone."Book-No Hidden Meanings

23) "People who demand a lot of respect, usually show very little."

24) "We must be the change we wish to see."-Gandhi

25) "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."-John F Kennedy

26) "Peace is not only the absent of conflit, it is the presents of justice."

27) "Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."-Eleanor Roosevelt

28) "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."-John F. Kennedy

29) "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."-Eleanor Roosvelt

30) "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."-Eleanor Roosevelt

31) "What is light has to endure burning"Book-Peaceful Warrior

32) "Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticims."

33) "Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought."-Dwight D. Morrow

34) "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."-Helen Keller

35) "Force is all-conquering, but it's victories are short-lived."-Abraham Lincoln

36) "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."-Abraham Lincoln

37) "It is most important to run out of scapegoats."Book-No Hidden Meanings

38) "Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation."-William Arthur Wood

39) "It is easy to mourn the death of a loved one, it takes a well-seasoned spirit to mourn the death of an enemy, for all of life wants to survive and thrive until it has no choice but to reckon with the Gods above."-Richard Downing

40) "God does not Call the Equipped, He equips the Called."

41) "I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."-Kahlil Gibran

42) "Arrogance macerating as humility"-Bill Maher

43) "Better to shun the bait, than struggle in the snare."-John Dryden

44) "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."-Ralph W. Sockman

45) "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."-Frederick Douglass

46) "Progress is an illusion."-Book, No Hidden Meanings

47) "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."-H.L. Mencken

48) "Those who do not bend, break."

49) "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."-Andre Gide

50) "A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."-Sallust

51) "Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."-Rebecca West

52) "Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."-David T. Wolf

53) "Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

54) "Adversity does not build character, it reveals it."

55) "Given according to his needs, expected according to his abilities."

56) "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."-Oscar Wilde

57) "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."-Alfred Lord Tennyson

58) "Evil can be displaced but never eradicated, as all solutions breed new problems. Yet it is necessary to keep on struggling toward solution."- Book-No Hidden Meanings

59) "Those who don't know their past are doomed to repeat it."

60) "War is inevitable, the best we can hope for is it's postponement."

60) "Love is NOT enough, but it's all we have."- Richard Downing

61) "God comforters the distrubed and disturbs the comfortable."

62) "Money is NOT the issue, it's just the "battle field", the battle field keeps the real issue disguise."

63) "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it." H.L. Mencken

64) "A great deal of what passes for current Christianity consists in denouncing other people's vices and faults." ~Henry H. Williams

65) "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." Stephen Weinberg

66) "Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others." Oscar Wilde

67) "Faith is not the absence of fear, it is the presence of courage."

67) "Democracy is the pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."- H.L. Mencken

68) "The cream rises to the top...so do turds."-Richard Downing

68) "I don't want Power....I just don't want to be abused by you're"-Richard Downing

68) "Where there is love, there is no burden."

68) "Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."- Oscar Wilde

68) "To be conscious, is to be in pain."

68) “great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed [is] to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.."

68) "If you have a hero, look again; you have diminished yourself in some way.."

68) "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"-Benjamin Franklin

68) "If you are not afraid to look back, nothing you are facing can frighten you."- James Baldwin

68) "Consumption must be balanced to the amount appropriate to the attainment of well being rather than to the satisfaction of desires."

68) "A progressive educational agenda must strive to liberate all persons from the various forms of oppression."