Gabi Clayton's favorite quotes: A-J

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Edward Abbey	Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Dr. Patch Adams	The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.
Dr. Patch Adams	The most revolutionary act you can commit in our society today is be happy.
Dr. Patch Adams Interview by 'Caring People' Magazine, Spring 1993	So my advice to old people is, damn it, stand tall and recognize you are the gold, you are the storage of the gold of life. If we're too stupid to see it in you, then make some noise and make us see it; at least go out there and get involved with the children.
Robert Alden	There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Woody Allen from “Hannah and Her Sisters" 1986 film	If Jesus came back, and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
Dorothy Allison	The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.
Muhammad Ali	Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Brian Andreas artist & storyteller	Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning & loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.
Maya Angelou	If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up -- lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.
Maya Angelou	We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and living our lives.
Maya Angelou	You did then what you knew how to do. When you knew better, you did better.
Maya Angelou	We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
Maya Angelou	There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
Maya Angelou	We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Susan B. Anthony	Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about 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.
anonymous	An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, pride and superiority. The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside of you and every other person too." They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee replied "The one I feed."
anonymous	Volunteers are not paid -- not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.
Barbara Lazear Ascher Landscape Without Gravity: A Memoir of Grief	For many of us, grieving is our first experience, since childhood, of being out of control. It is a frightening return to old helplessness and society doesn't tolerate it for long. The collective conscience speaks: "Get a grip on yourself." "Get on with it." But how do we "get a grip" on a self in metamorphosis? We are shedding more than tears, we are shedding skins. How can we "get on with it" when "it" has changed?
Barbara Lazear Ascher	I have been trying to make the best of grief and am just beginning to learn to allow it to make the best of me.
Isaac Asimov	Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Joan Baez	All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
Charlene Baldridge To ache and to bloom	We can never know the depth of another’s pain, only be there to listen, to hold, to say how it is with us. When we lose a child to death, the pain never goes away, we simply learn, through practice, how to live in spite of it, or through it, partly by coming together with others who grieve, and partly by expressing our need for hugs and surrounding us with friends who never, ever back away.
James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son	I imagine that the reason that people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they are afraid that if they let go of the hate, they will have to deal with pain.
James Baldwin	The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was before you came in.
James Baldwin	It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin	To be conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
James Baldwin	I want American history taught. Unless I'm in that book, you're not in it either. History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
Banksy artist and public prankster from Britain	I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
Steve Basile	Each at their own time, each at their own pace, each in their own way. Coming out is a process, a journey, not a race. Unlike most journeys, there is no one destination in mind, only a direction. Keep on. When you stray, or slow down, don't be afraid to ask advice or direction. Your journey is yours alone, and regardless of where you end up, or when, don't let anyone else plan the trip.
Bruce Bawer The Advocate, April 1998	Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.
Joan Baez	You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.
Joan Baez	If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez	All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?"
Wendell Berry The One Inch Journey	Always in the woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place, there will be along with the feeling of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. What you are doing is exploring. You are undertaking the first experience not of the place, but of yourself in that place. It is an experience of our essential loneliness, for nobody can discover the world for anyone else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes a common ground and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.
Derek Bok	If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Erma Bombeck	When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
Napoleon Bonaparte	Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte	Ten people who speak are more noise than ten-thousand that are silent.
John Boonstra	What is the cost of exclusion? What is lost by not having those most affected at the table in the policy discourse? Sound governing, good planning, justice....Everything, ultimately.
Holly Boswell transgender activist and author	You don't have a pronoun for me yet.
Pearl S. Buck	The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
Buddha	Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha	There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha	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.
Edmund Burke	The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
James Branch Cabell	The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
George Carlin	Irony is "a state of affairs that is the reverse of what was to be expected; a result opposite to and in mockery of the appropriate result." For instance: a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a runaway truck. He is the victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is the victim of an irony.
George Carlin	Our nation was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. So they killed a lot of white English people, in order to continue owning their black African people, so they could kill the rest of the red Indian people, in order to move west and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people, giving us a place to take off and drop our atomic bombs on the yellow Japanese people. You know what the motto for this country oughtta be? "YOU GIVE US A COLOR, WE'LL WIPE IT OUT."
George Carlin	Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man...living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
George Carlin	Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
George Carlin	Thou shalt not kill. Murder. The fifth commandment. But if you think about it...if you think about it, religion has never really had a problem with murder. Not really. No, more people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason. All you have to do...all you have to do is look at slavery, the Middle East, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the World Trade Center, and you'll see how seriously the religious folks take "Thou Shalt Not Kill." The more devout they are...the more devout they are, the more they see murder as negotiable...it's negotiable. It depends, you know? It depends, it depends on who's doing the killing, and who's getting killed.
George Carlin	I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth	People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
Albert Camus	I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
Albert Camus	In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
Hodding Carter	There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Jimmy Carter	We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Pablo Casals	Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Sid Caesar	Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Harry Chapin	There is a good tired and there is a bad tired. Ironically enough, bad tired can be the kind of day when you've won, but you chased other peoples dreams, you fought other peoples battles, you struggled through other peoples agendas, and when you hit the hay at night, victorious, you twist and turn because somehow it wasn't your day, it wasn't your life. Ironically enough, good tired can be a day that you lost everything, but you fought your battles, chased your dreams, lived your day, and when you hit the hay at night you sleep the sleep of the just. You rest easy, and you can say "take me away!"
Cesar Chavez	You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
Cesar Chavez	Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.
Cesar Chavez	Together, all things are possible.
Cesar Chavez	We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own." You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
Chinese proverb	Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Margaret Cho	Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.
Noam Chomsky	Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope. If you assume there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.
Deepak Chopra	The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra	Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
Winston Churchill	Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Arthur C. Clarke	A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Alec Clayton	The event seem more formal than we are comfortable with. We're just old-line radicals who prefer rousing with the rabble to hobnobbing with the bigwigs.
Eldridge Cleaver	If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
Kurt Cobain	Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.
William Sloane Coffin, Jr. War Is the Coward's Escape from the Problems of Peace from the July/August 2003 issue of Fellowship of Reconciliation magazine	War is humanity's most chronic and incurable disease. Said Plato: “Only the dead have seen an end to war.” Historian Will Durant estimated that in all recorded history only twenty-nine years could be described as free of war. And of all centuries, the last set records for bloodletting. Time and again, truth has proved the first casualty of war. That is because wars need lies to justify them, just as lies often call on violence for their defense. ... All nations make decisions based on self-interest and then defend them in the name of morality. ... The first casualty of war is truth, which is why, along with all the dead, wounded, and bereaved, war is always cause for remorse, never for exhilaration. ... Americans are blessed to live in a democracy. In a democracy dissent is not disloyal; what is unpatriotic is subservience. Apathy in the face of evil is morally unacceptable. Consequently, the sobering, demanding question is not “why abolish nuclear weapons?” but rather “why not?”
Leonard Cohen	There's a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen Beautiful Losers (1966)	What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
Gregory Corso	The opposite of poetry is hypocrisy.
Creole proverb	Tell me who you love, and I'll tell you who you are.
E.E. Cummings	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 human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Michael Cunningham in "The Hours"	You can't find peace by avoiding life.
The Dalai Lama	Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.
The Dalai Lama	My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Erasmus Darwin	He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Dante	The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Ellen DeGeneres	In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Benjamin Disraeli	The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Justice William O. Douglas	Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
Frederick Douglass 1857 treatise on West India Emancipation	If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Ram Dass and Paul Gorman How Can I Help	Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response to love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.
Angela Davis	We must always attempt to lift as we climb.
Angela Davis	If they come for me in the morning, they'll come for you at night.
Christopher Dawson	As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Dayak proverb (Borneo)	Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways; but where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses.
James Dean	Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Frederick Douglass	If there is no struggle, there's no progress. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.
Ani DiFranco	To me, being queer isn't who you're sleeping with; it's just an idea that sexuality isn't gender-based, that it's love-based.
Annie Dillard	There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down, saying, I never merited this grace, quite rightly, and then to sulk along the rest of your days on the edge of rage. I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.
Disraeli	The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Andrea Dworkin	Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us
Bob Dylan	May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift.
Thomas Edison	I have had a lot of success with failure.
Max Ehrman Desiderata (1927)	You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Albert Einstein	Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein	Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein	If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein	Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein	The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein	Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein	There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein	A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.
Albert Einstein	Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein	Nationalism is an infantile disease; it is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein	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	We cannot solve the problems we have created with the same thinking that created the problem.
adapted from Loren Eiseley's The Star Thrower	As the old man walked the beach at dawn, he noticed a young man ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea. Finally catching up with the youth, he asked him why he was doing this. The answer was that the stranded starfish would die if left until the morning sun. "But the beach goes on for miles and there are millions of starfish," countered the other. "How can your effort make any difference?" The young man looked at the starfish in his hand and then threw it to safety in the waves. "It makes a difference to this one," he said.
Dwight D. Eisenhower US general & Republican politician (1890 - 1969)	Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower	I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Gordon Eklund Moby, Too (1973)	Why had I been given a brain if I could not make use of it.
T.S. Eliot	Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	To Laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance (1841)	A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Erik Erikson	Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well-considered, and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit.
Carolyn Fields	Although we generally think of community in terms of what binds participants together -- shared norms, beliefs, and values --communities of difference are based not on homogeneity but on respect for difference and on the absolute regard for the intrinsic worth of every individual. Members of such communities do not begin with a dominant set of established norms but develop these norms together, with openness and respect, as they share their diverse perspectives.
Harvey Fierstein Bennington 1992 Commencement	Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein	If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
Corey Fischer Wounded in the culture wars	It is not normal for the leaders of a great democracy to turn against one of the most basic human impulses: the creation of art. Historically, all societies that have done so have been equally hostile to any expression of human freedom. This animus toward art is often couched in the argument that in the absence of government support, the market will best determine what kind of art should be nurtured. In fact, the market supports art that is marketable. Such art may be of high quality. It may satisfy our needs for entertainment or diversion. But art-as-product rarely provokes, challenges or innovates.
Leslie Feinberg transgender activist and author	I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex.
Malcolm S. Forbes	Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Anne Frank	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. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. In the meantime, I must hold up my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Barney Frank	Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight.
Victor Frankl	Suffering ceases to be suffering in some way at the moment it finds meaning.
Robert Frost	The only way out is to go through.
William Fulbright	The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
Robert Fulghum	Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.
Ernest Gaines	Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Indira Gandhi	My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides, and my windows to be closed. Instead, I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	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 K. Gandhi	Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mohandas K. Gandhi His reply when a reporter asked what he thought of Western civilization.	I think it would be a good idea.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	Violent means will give violent freedom.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	However much I may sympathize with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
Mohandas K. Gandhi	It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machinery's of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	Democracy and violence can ill go together. Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mohandas K. Gandhi	You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Mohandas K. Gandhi and son Arun Gandhi and Steven W. Gilbert	Gandhi's "Seven Blunders of the World" that Lead to Violence...Plus 5 by Steven W. Gilbert at the American Association for Higher Education from http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~tcarey/wise_jun.html Mohandas Gandhi's original list of "Seven Blunders of the World" that lead to violence, was first published in the Christian Science Monitor (February 1, 1995: pg 14). Mohandas Gandhi gave this list to his grandson, Arun Gandhi, shortly before his assassination. The list below includes Mohandas Gandhi's original seven blunders, including an eighth that was added by Arun Gandhi, and the four blunders added by Steven Gilbert. The last four focus on the relationship between learning, teaching, and technology. Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Commerce without morality Science without humanity Worship without sacrifice Politics without principle Rights without responsibilities [added by Arun Gandhi] Steven W. Gilbert added: Technology without direction Connection without community Teaching without joy Learning without hope
Robert Gardner	I suppose I should wish you success, but that is really easy. I would like to wish you something that is harder to come by. So I am going to wish you meaning in life. And meaning is not something you stumble across like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of human kind as it is passed on to you; out of your own talent and understanding, out of things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, Then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom. But sharing data is the first step toward community.
Kahlil Gibran in "The Prophet" (1923)	Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you, but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness, For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Andre Gide	It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not.
Allen Ginsberg	Whoever controls the language, the images, controls the race.
Ronald Gold	The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.
Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park	You were so busy trying to see if you could do it that you didn't stop to think about whether you should.
Whoopi Goldberg	Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
Whoopi Goldberg	Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
Emma Goldman	The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Paul Goodman Growing Up Absurd	Confusion is the state of promise, the fertile void where surprise is possible again. Confusion is in fact the state we are in, and we should be wise to cultivate it.
Alexander John Goodrum disabled African-American bisexual FTM transsexual activist, 1960-2002	Diversity is not for the squeamish. It means making (and taking) a space at the table that includes people you don't like, don't agree with, or who you think are just plain wrong.
Thich Nhat Hanh	Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth.
Rayna Green writer, college professor and Director of the American Indian Program at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, of German and Cherokee descent	By the time they reach second grade, every child in the country knows what an Indian is. They wear lots of feathers, ride spotted ponies and shoot arrows. Indians who don't fit the type are invisible; they simply can't be imagined by the majority of white children or adults.
Thich Nhat Hanh	In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
Thich Nhat Hanh	People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Thich Nhat Hanh	Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh	When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
Thich Nhat Hanh	And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in the situation of hell, we will be able to contribute our peace and serenity. The most important thing is for each of us to have some freedom in our heart, some stability in our heart, some peace in our heart. Only then will we be able to relieve the suffering around us.
Carol Hanisch	The personal is political.
Joanne Harris This was the young priest Pere Henri's Easter Sunday sermon at the end of the film "Chocolat" (2000) based on the book by Joanne Harris.	I'm not sure what the theme of my homily today ought to be. Do I want to speak of the miracle of our Lord's divine transformation? Not really, no. I don't want to talk about his divinity. I'd rather talk about his humanity. I mean, you know, how he lived his life on earth: his kindness, his tolerance. Listen, here is what I think. I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do, what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include.
Vaclav Havel	I am really not an optimist because not all is right in the world. I am really not a pessimist because not all is wrong in the world. I do, however, cultivate hope in my heart as an antidote for cynicism, apathy, malaise, and hopelessness.
Stephen Hawking	The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't the ignorance of knowledge but the illusion of it.
Lillian Hellman	Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Herman Hesse	If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Jim Hightower	The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it's conformity.
bell hooks	Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
Hope for Peace & Justice	Our values are simple. The journey is not.
Jane Howard Families	Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Charles Evans Hughes	When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Victor Hugo	There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and this is an idea whose time has come.
Felicity Huffman acceptance speech as best actress in her role as a transgender woman in drama "Transamerica" at the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on 1/16/06	I know as actors our job is to usually shed our skins. But I think as people, our job is to become who we really are, and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation, and a life on the margins to become who they really are.
Zora Neale Hurston	Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the Sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Robert Hutchins	The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Aldous Huxley	Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Daniel K. Inouye	History provides no guarantees on the shape of things to come. The possibilities for good and evil remain essentially today, as they have always been, as numerous as the stars. Yet, if there is anything about which I am absolutely certain, it is that within each of us lies the power to transform the world for the better. Let there be no doubt as to the ability of well-meaning individuals to change life’s odds and to influence his or her own destiny along a positive course. I believe most passionately that in each one of you lies a Jefferson, a Lincoln, an Eleanor Roosevelt, a Mother Teresa, and a Martin Luther King, Jr. None of these great men and women accepted the failures and inequities of the world in which they were born, and neither should you! They believed in the perfectibility of the world in which they lived and would not be turned away from what they knew was good, what was right, and what was just.
John Irving A Prayer For Owen Meany	When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time -- the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes -- when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feelings that she's gone, forever--there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.
Molly Ivins	I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
Molly Ivins	The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Molly Ivins	What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
William James	Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Thomas Jefferson	Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as manners and opinions change, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Thomas Jefferson	If there be one principle more deeply written than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas Jefferson	All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson	Dissent is the purest form of patriotism.
Thomas Jefferson	The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Sonia Johnson	It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have 'lifestyles'.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones	Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
Erica Jong	And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
June Jordan in Poem for South African Women	we are the ones we have been waiting for.
Carl Jung	Learn all your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul.
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Note - some of these quotes are from Andi Lipman's site at http://www.andilipman.com/