Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£A person of good intellignce & sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality ÔÇô it's not just a bleeding heart, knee jerk, liberal kind of thing ÔÇô it's just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavoured dental floss & there are people sleeping in the street.ÔÇØ
George Carlin


ÔÇ£He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life & found a dead beetle at the bottom.ÔÇØ
P. G. Wodehouse

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£It fascinates me that g
iving to charities is considered noble & praiseworthy, but creating a society that doesn't require charity is considered socialist & bad.ÔÇØ
Anon
ÔÇ£The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.ÔÇØ
Hannah Arendt

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£A society that produces billionaires whilemillioms go hungry isn't successful; its broken. I don't think we should have billionaires. Full stop.ÔÇØ
Zohran Mamdani

ÔÇ£Medicare for all. -ÔÇØThat's socialism!ÔÇØ
Social security. - ÔÇ£That's socialism!ÔÇØ
Debt free education. ÔÇ£That's socialism!ÔÇØ
Universal child care. ÔÇ£That's socialism!ÔÇØ

$1trillion + in tax cuts for the wealthy...
ÔÇ£That's just how it is.ÔÇØ
Robert Reich

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.ÔÇØ
FDR

ÔÇ£The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules.ÔÇØ
Bob Marley

ÔÇ£Every tyrant fears a thinker.ÔÇØ
Voltaire

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security & indepence. People who are hungry & out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.ÔÇØ
FDR

ÔÇ£I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.ÔÇØ
Barbara Kingsolver

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees.
If your plan is for 100 years, educate children.ÔÇØ
Confucious

ÔÇ£No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.ÔÇØ
Aesop

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Give people what they need: food,medicine,clean air, pure water, trees & grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every human deserves it.ÔÇØ
Howard Zinn

ÔÇ£For reading addicts. Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery & many kinds of slavery, & many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.ÔÇØ
Carl Sagan

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The problem isn't a lack of money, food,water or land.The problem is that you've given control of these things to a group of greedy psycopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping human kind.ÔÇØ
Bill Hicks

ÔÇ£Your religion assumes that people are chidren & need a bogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in god so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force , & the threat of punishment by an all-seeing god for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.ÔÇØ
Carl Sagan

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£My darling girl, when are you going to realise that being 'normal' isn't necessarily a virtue? It sometimes denotes a lack of courage.ÔÇØ
Aunt Frances

ÔÇ£If more & more wealth can be accumulated & provided to heirs without ever paying any taxes, then we are on the way to a permanent aristocracy in America.ÔÇØ
Robert Reich, Death & taxes.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory.Destroy its books,its culture, its history.Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation willbegin to forget what it is & what it was. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.ÔÇØ
Milan Kundera

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus

[Lilith7]

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin

[Lilith7]

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran

[Lilith7]

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

[Lilith7]

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
Mark Twain


The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

[Lilith7]

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde

[Lilith7]

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde


The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

[Lilith7]

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

[Lilith7]

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.
Seamus Heaney

[Lilith7]

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
Seamus Heaney

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar