Some of Our Favorite Inspirational Quotes
"When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them." Helen Keller
"Insanity, is repeating the past, expecting the future to be different". Albert Einstein
"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - Francis of Assisi
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein
'The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people": Frank Kent
"It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity" - Frank Zappa
He that lives upon hope, will die fasting. -Ben Franklin
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government... The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them. Thomas Jefferson
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
-Mark Twain
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
-Howard Zinn
"We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior."
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
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." - Galileo Galilei
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are." : Niccolo Machiavelli
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity": George Bernard Shaw
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams
"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.": Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.": Thich Nhat Hanh - Vietnamese monk, activist and writer.
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." : George Washington
Tamra Augostino
"If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got!"
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted
international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the
noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble
with men's lives should not stake their own": H.G. Wells
"The soul of our country needs to be awakened . . .When leaders act contrary
to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders": Veterans Fast for Life
"If we work in marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will
efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work
upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then
engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and
brighten to all eternity": Daniel Webster
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity." : Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, May 22, 1886
"The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God .. or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience." : Leo Tolstoy, Patriotism and Government
"A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner." : George Bernard Shaw
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." -General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people": Spencer Johnson
"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind
often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the
greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at
once produce unbearable turmoil."
- Robert A. Heinlein
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people: John Adams
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people,
who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their
great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and
a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable,
unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind
of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers."
-- John Adams (Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, 1765)
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