Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Force always attracts men of low morality. ÔÇ£

Einstein

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them. ÔÇ£
Einstein

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile ÔÇ£

Einstein

[R2x1]

ÔÇ£The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Force always attracts men of low morality. ÔÇ£

Einstein

I'm not too sure about the universe . . .

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.ÔÇØ
Einstein

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.ÔÇØ

Einstein

[Lilith7]

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. ÔÇ£

Einstein

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.ÔÇØ
Einstein

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ÔÇ£
Einstein

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Creativity is intelligence having fun. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Imagination is more important than knowledge. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ÔÇ£
Einstein

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ÔÇ£
Einstein

ÔÇ£Dying is like being born; just a change.ÔÇØ
Isabel Allende

ÔÇ£Every tree has its enemy, few have an advocate. In all my works I take the part of trees against all their enemies.ÔÇØ
JRR Tolkien

[R2x1]

"They chop down 100 ft trees
To make chairs
I bought one
I am six foot one inch.
When I sit in the chair
IÔÇÖm four foot two.
Did they really chop down a 100 ft tree
To make me look shorter?"

Goliath (1971) by Spike Milligan

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Compassion hurts.When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the table with some of its worst horrors.ÔÇØ
Andrew Boyd

ÔÇ£The simple step of the courageous individual is to not take part in the lie.ÔÇØ
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

ÔÇ£What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.ÔÇØ
Oscar Levant

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear & the blind can see.ÔÇØ
Mark Twain

ÔÇ£If hard work was such a wonderful thing,, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.ÔÇØ
Lane Kirkland

ÔÇ£The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they're genuine.ÔÇØ
Abraham Lincoln

[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 being deserves it.
Howard Zinn

ÔÇ£One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion & morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple & doesn't require religion at all.ÔÇØ
Arthur C Clarke

ÔÇ£I'm going to put this somewhere safeÔÇØ is an ancient incantation that opens a portal to to a randm point in another timeline, through which all safely kept things travel, never to be seen again.ÔÇØ
The laughing librarian

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.ÔÇØ
Janis Joplin

ÔÇ£For a man to understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.ÔÇØ
Anonymous

ÔÇ£That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't se what's going on below. You don't see the human consequences of what you're doing.ÔÇØ
Howard Zinn

[zqwerty]

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller. ÔÇô P. T. Barnum

[Lilith7]

"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody into office, who is a little better, who is less dangerous, is understandable. But never forgetting that no matter who gets into office, the crucial question is not who is in office, but what kind of social movement do you have. Because if you have a powerful social movement, it doesn't matter who is in office.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.ÔÇØ

Howard Zinn

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.ÔÇØ



ÔÇ£The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.ÔÇØ

Howard Zinn

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.ÔÇØ

Howard Zinn