Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

"Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.ÔÇØ

Howard Zinn

[zqwerty]

Neoliberalism - At one point that was called Horse and Sparrow Economics.

"If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows."

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements.ÔÇØ

Howard Zinn

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£War itself is the enemy of the human race.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Education can, and should be, dangerous.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.ÔÇØ

Howard Zinn

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doing.ÔÇØ
Howard Zinn

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The illerate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read & write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn & relearn.ÔÇØ
Alvin Toffler

ÔÇ£It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others.ÔÇØ
Nelson Mandela

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of caharity. It is an act of justoce.ÔÇØ
Nelson Mandela

ÔÇ£I have studied many philosophers & many cats. The wisdom of cats is infitely superior.ÔÇØ
Hippolyte Taine

ÔÇ£You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week ,anyway. Probably the Librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.'
Neil Gaiman

[R2x1]

ÔÇ£I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doing.ÔÇØ
Howard Zinn

That's ok, a lot of the people under him had a pretty fair idea what was going down.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£A closed mind is a dying mind.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Funny isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live.ÔÇØ


Edna Ferber

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Its terrible to realise that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; & then its too late.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Opinion! If everyone had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.ÔÇØ
Edna Ferber

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£There is an interesting resemblance in the speech of dictators, no matter what country they hail from or what language they speak.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.ÔÇØ
Edna Ferber

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Don't allow men who hate women to define femiinism as women who hate men.:
Emmy Colleti

ÔÇ£Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance.ÔÇØ
Nathan Rutstein

ÔÇ£Once you hit a certain age life is just a delicate balance of trying to stay awake & trying to fall asleep. While slowly getting worse at both.ÔÇØ
Anon

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£You can't use reason to convince anyone out of an argument that they didn't use reason to get into.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The good thing about science is that its true whether or not you believe in it.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.ÔÇØ

Neil De Grasse Tyson

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I think of space not as the final frontier but as the next frontier. Not as something to be conquered but to be explored.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.ÔÇØ

Neil De Grasse Tyson

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£So youÔÇÖre made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world.
We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.ÔÇØ

Neil De Grasse Tyson

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Read. Read anything.Read the things they say are good for you, & the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.ÔÇØ
Neil Gaiman

ÔÇ£Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.ÔÇØ
Rumi

ÔÇ£A developed country is not a country where the poor have cars. Its where the rich use public transportation.ÔÇØ
Gustavo Petro

ÔÇ£What will survive of us is love.ÔÇØ
Philip Larkin

[zqwerty]

Think there's a typo on the Philip Larkin quote Lilith7. 2nd "us" should be "is" I think.

[Lilith7]

Think there's a typo on the Philip Larkin quote Lilith7.  2nd "us" should be "is" I think.

Cheers, just fixed it. 

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I didn't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happened that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a trouble maker.ÔÇØ
Sinead O'Connor


ÔÇ£How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.ÔÇØ

Philip Larkin

[zqwerty]

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.

Joseph Goebbels.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£You can't put off being young until you retire.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!ÔÇØ
Philip Larkin

ÔÇ£Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.ÔÇØ

Seamus Heaney