"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."
- Anne Sullivan
"The term 'free market' is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is 'lawless market.' In a lawless market, entrepreneurs can get away with privatizing the benefits of the market (profits), while socializing its costs (like pollution)." - Steve Kangas
"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."- Gandhi
"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence." - Ovid
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.”
- Goethe
"The real conspiracy is that we have been trained to think that we are disempowered and that there is nothing we can do. If we can get into Peoples' minds the reality of knowing what they are and everyone suddenly changed their Moral Compass we don't need a revolution. It's a Spiritual Revolution. Without that Spiritual revolution and that Revolution of the Heart taking place first no revolution will work and it'll just bring us back to the point where we are now or even worse.”
- Max Igan
"It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.”
- Elie Wiesel
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.”
- Susan B. Anthony
"Action is the antidote to despair.”
- Joan Baez
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
- Buddha
"It's time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.”
- Jesse Jackson
"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
- Henry David Thoreau
"Do or do not, there is no try.”
- Yoda
"He who is born with capacities for any undertaking, finds in executing this the fairest portion of his being.”
- Goethe
"The Price of Apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
- Plato
"We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.”
- Sam Nunn
"We are aimed by the myths that guide us, what myths we're looking at and what story we're buying into. This is our future we're creating here, we are a part of it. We are a part of history. We are writing history right now and we often forget that. I see this huge awakening at the moment as an opportunity to get involved in the real story. If you're not using your imagination, somebody else will. Guide your imagination in order to heal and correct what has gone wrong.”
- Max Igan
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
- Helen Keller
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
- James Baldwin
"We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”
- Cesar Chavez
"The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
"It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.”
- Lillian Hellman
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
- Buddha
"We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
- Terence McKenna
"They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.”
- Jack Kerouac
"The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech”
- Edwin H. Friedman
"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.”
- Aldous Huxley
"Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.”
- Paulo Friere
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”
- H.L. Mencken
"Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.”
- Anton Chekhov
"Fear always springs from ignorance.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Evil people have a weakness in common. They are cowards, and a coward will always run from a real challenge.”
- Author Unknown
"Morality is doing what is right regardless what you are told, religion is doing what you are told regardless
of what is right.”
- Author Unknown
"The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.”
- Richelle Mead
"It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.”
- Johann von Goethe
"Be yourself, everyone else is taken.”
- Anonymous
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
- Michael Jordan
"Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the surface of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.”
- Annie Dillard
"The truth is like a lion, you don't need to defend it. Just set it free, it can defend itself.”
- Augustine
"In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.”
- High Eagle
"There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy”
- Joseph Pulitzer
"You never find yourself until you face the truth.”
- Pearl Bailey
"A foolish faith in authority is the greatest enemy of the truth”
- Albert Einstein
"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
- Dresden James
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves." - Dresden James
"No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it is not the same river, and it is not the same man. There is nothing permanent except change.”
- Heraclitus
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
- Shel Silverstein
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
- Steven Weinberg
"The greatest personalities that ever existed have been those who united human beings and put them on the road toward cooperation and effectiveness and peace. Those whom the world has held highest have helped to unite and not sever interconnectedness. They have not been the destroyers of differences but the harmonizer of differences.”
- John Lovejoy Elliott
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
"One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”
- Chinese proverb
"Where there is power, there is resistance.”
- Foucault
"The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Each man has his own fortune in his hands; as the artist has a piece of rude matter, which he is to fashion to a certain shape. But the art of living rightly is like all arts: the capacity alone is born with us; it must be learned, and practiced with incessant care.”
- Johann von Goethe
"Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.”
- Anton Chekhov
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
- Groucho Marx
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
- Henri Bergson
"People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them.”
- Epictetus
"There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. ”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other,to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
- Paulo Coelho
"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.”
- Merry Browne
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.”
- Madame de Stael
"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything.”
- Thomas H. Huxley
"Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.”
- Stephen Jay Gould
"To succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
- Michael Korda
"Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage exclusiveness, and the feeling of being especially privileged. Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies.”
- Sophia Lyon Fahs
"Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”
- Mark Twain
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
- Anatole France
"To change who you are, change who you think you are.”
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.”
- Carter G. Woodson
"A wise man proportions his beliefs to the evidence.”
- David Hume
"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”
- Stephen Covey
"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.”
- Henry Steele Commager
"Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.”
- Ralf Waldo Emerson
"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.”
- Pubilius Syrus
"Without fear, we are able to see more clearly our connections to others. Without fear, we have more room for understanding and compassion. Without fear, we are truly free.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
- Pearl S. Buck
"Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.”
- William Ellery Channing
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
- Hans Hofmann
"Is there equality before the law? At every stage of the judicial process - facing the policeman, appearing in court, being freed on bond, being sentenced by the judge - the poor person is treated worse than the rich, the black treated worse than the white, the politically or personally odd character is treated worse than the orthodox.”
- Howard Zinn
"Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.”
- John Muir
"No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.”
- John P. Zenger
"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.”
- Marilyn Ferguson
"Injustice never rules forever.”
- Seneca
"The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.”
- Christopher Lasch
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
- Rene Descartes
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face, forever.”
- George Orwell
"The most powerful moral influence is example.”
- Huston Smith
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
- Lewis Carol - Alice Through the Looking Glass
"Avoid the bad habit of domesticating the prophet of your choice, turning him into a cheerleader for your way of thinking and way of life. Remember that all the great prophets were courageous and outrageous folks who railed against the powers-that-be, challenged self-satisfied piosity, threatened the prevailing social order, and would find you falling short in some significant ways.”
- Parker J. Palmer
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.”
- John Philpot Curran
"Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.”
- Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”- Mark Twain
