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The shephard drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shephard as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues
Abraham Lincoln
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphasn, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular
Adlai Stevenson
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler
Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behavior should be based upon sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be indeed in a poor way if he had to be restrained by a fear of punishment and of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
I don't know with what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones
Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite: The Universe and Human stupidity. And I'm not to sure abour the former.
Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
If our theories are wrong our solutions will make matters worse.
Albert Einstein
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Albert Einstein
Three Principles of Work: 1) Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2)From Discord, Find Harmony. 3) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experienc is the mysterious
It is the source of all art and science
Albert Einstein
Discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has already seen and thinking what no one else has seen.
Albert Szent-Georgi
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards
Alexander Jablovok
To err is human, to forgive divine
Alexander Pope
The wise learn many things from their enemies
Aristophanes
It is the mark of an educate mind that to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not seek exactness where only approximation is possible
Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
my dear, there is never any smoke without a fire
Auden
They that give up their essential liberty to obtain a little temporal safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
Benjamin Franklin
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
Bernadette Devlin
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin--more even than death...Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Bertrand Russel
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Bob Marley
Your true value is determined entirely upon who you are compared to
Bob Wells
All that we are is the result of what we have thought
Budha
Thats the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me, I demand euphoria
Calvin
Comdedy is tragedy plus time
Carol Burnett
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Cervantes (The Impossible Dream)
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals
Charles Kuralt
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
Chief Joseph's surrender
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
Chinese Proverb
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them
Chinese Proverb
The man who moves mountains begins by carrying away small stones
Chinese Proverb
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Cicero
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without
Confucius
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show
That slaves however contented never know
Cowper
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to problems that it is generally employed only by small children and large nations
David Friedman
Truth springs from argument amongst friends
David Hume
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it
David Star Jordan
What is Originality? Undetected Plagiarism
Dean William R. Inge
There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity
General Douglass McCarthur
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
David Hume
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot
Nothing is going to get better, its not
Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any huyman being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposite ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beyond a critical point within finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase...The Human question is not how man can possibly exist but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive
Frank Herbert (Dune)
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities. Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races ...
Franklin Roosevelt
If there is no struggle, there is no progress
Frederick Douglass
He who deals with monsters should take care that he himself doesn't become a monster...The more one gazes into the abyss, the more the abyss gazes into you.
Friedrich Nietzche
What does not destroy me makes me strong
Friedrich Nietzche
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge
Friedrich Nietzche
With stupidity the gods themselves stuggle in vain
Friedrich Von Schiller
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who don't vote
George Jean Nathan
All thought is but a footnote to Plato.
George Santiano
Whatever you can dream, begin it
boldness has genius, power and magic in it
Goethe
Wonder is the beggining of Wisdom
Greek Proverb
We learn from history that man can never learn from history.
Hegel
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be, now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
The man who goes alone can start today; but the man who goes with others must wait until that other is ready
Henry David Thoreau
There cannot be a crises next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death
H.H. Munro
Do not worry about other people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity
Horace Mann
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
I Ching
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing whats right
Issac Asimov
If I have seen further it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants
Isaac Newton
Whatever thy find hardest to do, do it with all thy heart
Jesus Christ
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country
John Kennedy
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought
John Kennedy
The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of you Effectiveness
John Maxwell
That which is static and repetitive is boring
That which is dynamic and random is confusing
In between lies art
John Locke
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thought on the unthinking
John Maynard Keynes
Power doesn't corrupt. Fear corrupts...Perhaps the fear of a loss of power
John Steinback
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confedaracy against him
Jonathan Swift (Thoughts on Various Subjects)
The enemy is anybody who is going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on
Joseph Heller (Catch-22)
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is mingled with grief, love grows perhaps the greater.
J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
Not all those who wander are lost
J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child
Knights of Pythagoras
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind--but one cannot live eternally in the cradle.
Konstantin E. Tsiolovsky
We should often be ahamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them.
La Rochefoucauld
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a simple step
Lao-Tsu
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Judge Louis D. Brandeis (Dissenting opinion Olmstead v. United States)
It is easy to take Liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
M. Grundler
Loyalty to Petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul
Mark Twain
The fact that man can tell right from wrong proves man's intellectual superiority to other creatures, but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot
Mark Twain
No pressure, no diamonds
Mary Case
Natives who beat drums to ward off evil spirits are objects of scorn from smart Americans who beat horns to break up traffic jams.
Mary Ellen Kelly
Insisting on perfect safety is for those who don't have the balls to live in the real world
Mary Shafer
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
Mahatma Ghandi
We must become the change we want to see
Mahatma Ghandi
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscious tells him is unjust , and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscious of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not look upon this world with fear and disgust. Bravely face whatever the Gods offer
Morihei Ueshiba
The Art of Peace is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religion
Morihei Ueshiba
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggresion without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace
Morihei Ueshiba
Kind words can be short and easy to speak; but their echoes are truly endless
Mother Teresa
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel
Muslim Proverb
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things
Niccolo Machiavelli
It is the province of knowledge to speak
And the province of wisdom to listen
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Civilisation is before all, the will to live in common....Barbarism is the tendency to disassociation.
Ortega y Gasset
Life is to important to be taken seriously
Oscar Wilde
Give me Liberty or Give me Death!
Patrick Henry
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Peter Druckner
Necessity, who is the mother of all invention
Plato
No law or ordinance is mightier then understanding
Plato
I hate quotations
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So of happiness...the more it is spent, the more it remains
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think, therefore, I am
Rene Descartes
Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly
Robert Kennedy
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why
I dream of things that never were and ask why not
Robert Kennedy
Illegal Aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian
Robert Orden
It is not the Horse that drives the cart, but the oats
Russian Proverb
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
Salvor Hardin
All animals but man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it
Samuel Butler
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, Knowledge without Integrity is dangerous and dreadful
Samuel Johnson
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing
Socrates
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
Socrates
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all
Socrates
Its life, Jim, but not as we know it.
Spock
Beware the man of one book
St. Thomas Aquinas
We are as gods. We might as well get good at it
Stewart Brand
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey
Beware the Clergy in Politics
Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson
I live for books
Thomas Jefferson
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself
Thomas Paine
I dissaprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
Voltaire
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh
Voltaire
Seven National Crimes
1) I don't think
2) I don't know
3) I don't care
4) I am too busy
5) I leave well enough alonge
6) I have no time
7) I am not interested
William J.H. Boetcker
Learning isn't compulsory...Neither is survival
W. Edwards Deming
To save your world you asked this man to die
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden (Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier)
Education is a progresive discovery of our own ignorance
Will Durant
That which is not just is not law
William Loyd Garrison
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice...I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch-and I WILL BE HEARD!
William Loyd Garrison
Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
There is nothing good or bad, thinking makes it so
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
Men stumble on the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up as if nothing had happened
Winston Churchill
The great lesson in life is to learn that even fools are right sometimes
Winston Churchill
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
If you don't know where you are going, you will end up someplace else
Yogi Bera