“If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.”
-Xenophon Greek general & historian (434 BC – 355 BC)
“In war, truth is the first casualty.”
-Aeschylus Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC)
“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”
-Aeschylus, Agamemnon Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC)
“Time as he grows old teaches all things.”
-Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC)
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”
-Dante Alighieri Italian national epic poet (1265 – 1321)
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”
-Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Italian national epic poet (1265 – 1321)
“There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.”
-Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Italian national epic poet (1265 – 1321)
“Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.”
-Archimedes, 300 B.C. Greek inventor, mathematician, & physicist (287 BC – 212 BC)
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
-Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” -Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
-Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
-Aristotle Ethics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
-Aristotle, Metaphysics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
“A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange…Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”
-Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC )
“The basis of a democratic state is liberty.”
-Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
“The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.”
– Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”
-GK Chesterton
“Never tell anyone that you’re: writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They’ll encourage you to death.”
-Lynn Johnston
“virtu: love of or taste for fine objects of art; also, productions of art also, productions of art. Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.”
-Bertrand Russell
“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”
-Albert Einstein
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 – 1980)
“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 – 1980)
“Existence precedes and rules essence.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943) -French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 – 1980)
“When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) act 1 French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 – 1980)
“To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 – 1980)
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 – 1980)
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
-Immanuel Kant German philosopher (1724 – 1804)
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” -Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
-Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
-Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809 )
“Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing”.
-Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)
“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
-Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)
“The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.”
-Peter Ustinov English actor & author (1921 – 2004)
“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.”
-John Ciardi US poet (1916 – 1986)
“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the way of peace: “Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”
-Peace Pilgrim
“You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.”
-Gandhi
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
-Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952 US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 – 1965)
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
-Albert Einstein, ‘Out of My Later Years,’ 1950 US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)
“Only the educated are free.”
-Epictetus, Discourses Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD – 135 AD)
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
-George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
“While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.”
-Lenin, “State and Revolution”, 1919 Russian Communist politician & revolutionary (1870 – 1924)
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
-Lord Acton, Lecture, February 26, 1877
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
-Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965 US black nationalist leader (1925 – 1965)
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”
-Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897) US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish author (1850 – 1894)
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
-Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)
“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.”
-Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
-Frank Lloyd Wright US architect (1869 – 1959)
-Them