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etc "First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then
they came for the communists and I did not speak out -
because I was not a communist. Then they came for the
trade unionists and I did not speak out - because I was
not a trade unionists. Then they came for me - and there
was no one left to speak out for me." -Pastor
Niemoeler (victim of the Nazis) |
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| "I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." -Edward Everett "All human beings, whatever their cultural or historical background, suffer when they are intimidated, imprisoned or tortured . . . We must, therefore, insist on a global consensus, not only on the need to respect human rights worldwide, but also on the definition of these rights . . . for it is the inherent nature of all human beings to yearn for freedom, equality and dignity, and they have an equal right to achieve that." -The Dalai Lama "We protect only what we love, we love only what we know, we know only what we are taught." -Author Unknown "Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love." -Henry David Thoreau "Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another" -Author Unknown "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!" -Patrick Henry "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." -John Adams "If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace." -Franklin D. Roosevelt "The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain." -Emily Dickinson |
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| "If you judge people, you
have no time to love them." -Mother Theresa "I feel morally and intellectually obliged to simply conceded that the death penalty experiment has failed.... From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." -Former US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun "Please use your freedom to promote ours." -Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Democracy Leader and Nobel Peace Laureate "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." -Mohandas Gandhi "It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." -E. F. Schumacher |
Below from Vijay Krishnan - Stanford
Inspiring Quotes
"Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the
ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." Josh
Billings
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to
himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw
"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets
painful is the man who will win." Roger Bannister
"It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept
anything but the best, you very often get it." William
Somerset Maugham
"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have
reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." Dag
Hammarskjvld
"Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are
so few at the top it is almost lonely there." Samuel Insull
"Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that
basket." Andrew Carnegie
"We are what we do continously, hence, Excellence is not an
act but a Habit."
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the
moments that take your breath away."
"There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit
down."
"A successful person is one who lays a foundation with the
stones others throw at him."
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there
are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one
into the other."
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail. --George Bernard Shaw"
" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find
out how far one can go."
-Andrew Carnegie"
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes
from an indomitable will. - Mahatma Gandhi"
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to
go beyond them into the impossible."
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes
off his goal. -E. Joseph Crossman"
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no
evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. - Bertrand
Russell
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to
make it true. - Richard Bach
"An invasion of armies can be stopped, but not an idea whose
time has come. -Victor Hugo
Emerson quotes: Once you make a decision, the universe conspires
to make it happen. No one can cheat you out of ultimate success
but yourself. - Leonard Barden in "The Guardian Chess
book"
Other Quotes
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and some faith enhancing ones from the Bible (courtesy Norman
Vincent Peale and his books)
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
If God be for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31
The kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matthew 7:7
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:13
Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Mark 11:23
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
In quietness and in confidence shall be
your strength. (Isaiah 30:15)
Some Fundoo quotes
Emerson quotes
Humorous quotes
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in
their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile
away from them and you have their shoes."
"A psychologist is a man who watches everyone else when a
beautiful girl enters the room."
"Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had,
during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your
species I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal
on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with
the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to
an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural
resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread
to another area. There is another organism on this planet that
follows the same pattern. A virus.
Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a
plague, and we are the cure."
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
"Logic is a systematic method for getting the wrong
conclusion with confidence. Statistics is a systematic method for
getting the wrong conclusion with 95% confidence."
Quotes about organized religion/Religion vs. Science/Evolution
Steven Weinberg, Theoretical Physicist. "Religion is an
insult to human dignity. Without it 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."
Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, educator, mathematician,
and social critic (1872-1970). "I wish to propose for the
reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear,
appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in
question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true."
"Religion is based . . . mainly on fear . . . fear of the
mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of
cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion
have gone hand in hand. . . . My own view on religion is that of
Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source
of untold misery to the human race." [quoted in Holy
Horrors] Henry Louis "H.L." Mencken, American editor
and critic (1880-1956).
"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."
"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; To explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy." -- David Brooks, 'The Necessity of Atheism'
"It's often said that because evolution happened in the past, and we didn't see it happen, there is no direct evidence for it. That, of course, is nonsense. It's rather like a detective coming on the scene of a crime, obviously after the crime has been committed, and working out what must have happened by looking at the clues that remain. In the story of evolution, the clues are a billionfold" - Richard Dawkins