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Previous Quotes of the Week

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  1. "If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." –Fred Rogers
  2. "Go to where the silence is and say something." –Amy Goodman
  3. "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." –Jonathan Swift
  4. "Everything in moderation, including moderation." –Oscar Wilde
  5. "Once we give up searching for approval, we often find it easier to earn respect." –Gloria Steinem
  6. "If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." –Malcolm X
  7. "No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." –Nathaniel Hawthorne
  8. "You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere." –Ursula K. Le Guin
  9. "I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?" –Diogenes
  10. "Death may be knocking on my door, but I'm not getting out of this glorious hot bath to answer it." –Amy Krouse Rosenthal
  11. "It is us today. It will be you tomorrow." –Haile Selassie
  12. "God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people’s problems on earth." –Steve Biko
  13. "Good is not a thing you are. It is a thing you do." –G. Willow Wilson
  14. "The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life." –Lucan
  15. "To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt." –Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  16. "The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen." –Susette La Flesche
  17. "Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule." –The Buddha
  18. "It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." –Charles Darwin
  19. "I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie." –Jacqueline Carey
  20. "No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us." –Marsha P. Johnson
  21. "Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business." –Marshall Mathers
  22. "Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life." –Nelson Mandela
  23. "Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things." –Leslie Jones
  24. "Be silent, for it is a better gift than flowers." –Ptahhotep
  25. "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." –Paul R. Ehrlich
  26. "Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people." –Harry S. Truman
  27. "I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn." –Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  28. "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between dog and man." –Mark Twain
  29. "Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time." –Mary Wollstonecraft
  30. "Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you." –Frida Kahlo
  31. "Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks—on your body or on your heart—are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt." —Anthony Bourdain
  32. "You must never give in to despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength." —Iroh
  33. "We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility." —Rabindranath Tagore
  34. "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar', every 'supreme leader', every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena." –Carl Sagan
  35. "You cannot believe now that you'll ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now." –Abraham Lincoln
  36. "Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all." –John Greenleaf Whittier
  37. "One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying." —Joan of Arc
  38. "Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous." –Georgia O'Keeffe
  39. "I am still learning." –Michelangelo
  40. "Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." –Chief Seattle
  41. "Civility costs nothing, and buys everything." –Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  42. "I have a bad feeling about this." –Obi-Wan Kenobi
  43. "Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage." –Carl Bernstein
  44. "A great artist can come from anywhere.” –Anton Ego, Ratatouille
  45. "Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes." –Alfred C. Kinsey
  46. "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
  47. "There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people." —G. K. Chesterton
  48. "The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia." –Umberto Eco
  49. “Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” —Jim Davis
  50. "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  51. "He who represents himself has a fool for a client." –Abraham Lincoln
  52. "I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition." —Jean-François Copé
  53. "Caring about people, about things, about life is an act of maturity." —Tracy McMillan
  54. "I'm here right now, I'm not dead yet." —The Raconteurs
  55. "My flaws burn through my skin like demonic flames from hell." –$uicideBoy$
  56. "I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions." —Susan Sarandon
  57. "We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." —Denis Diderot
  58. "We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him." —Michel de Montaigne
  59. "I think I'm cool. That's all that matters." —Tyler, the Creator
  60. "The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us." —Frank Ocean
  61. "We are all one – and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way." –Bayard Rustin
  62. "The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." —Bertrand Russell
  63. "Priesthood, Imamhood, Pundithood often come hand in hand with tyranny." —Abhijit Naskar
  64. "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." —Wayne Dyer
  65. "My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you." —Audre Lorde
  66. "Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it." —Audre Lorde
  67. "When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed, but when we are silent we are still afraid, so it is better to speak." —Audre Lorde
  68. "The most dangerous phrase in the language is ‘we’ve always done it this way.’" —Grace Hopper
  69. "You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." —Shirley Chisolm
  70. I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others." —Wole Soyinka
  71. "Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me." —Friedrich Nietzsche
  72. "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor." —James Baldwin
  73. "The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power." —Toni Morrison
  74. "Even if you are not ready for day, it cannot always be night." —Gwendolyn Brooks
  75. "Without music, life would be a mistake…" —Friedrich Nietzsche
  76. "Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
  77. "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought, which they seldom use." —Søren Kierkegaard
  78. "The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." —Diogenes
  79. "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." —François Rabelais
  80. "What we've got here is failure to communicate." —'Captain', Cool Hand Luke
  81. "It’s true that pain makes people change." —Kid Cudi
  82. "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." —Desmond Tutu
  83. "Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you—a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you... It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power." —Ray Charles
  84. "I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry." —Maxine Waters
  85. "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" —John Maynard Keynes
  86. "War is how God teaches Americans geography." —Ambrose Bierce
  87. "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." —Zig Ziglar
  88. "You bring out the best in yourself by looking for the best in others." —Gene Bedley
  89. "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner." —Lao Tzu
  90. "You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight." —Jay-Z
  91. "It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves." —François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
  92. "Sometimes, you gotta close a door to open a window." —Jerrod Carmichael in NEW MAGIC WAND by Tyler, The Creator
  93. "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." —Alice Walker
  94. "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." —Franklin D. Roosevelt
  95. "Be Gay. Do Crimes" —@absentobject via Instagram
  96. "Two people might argue, and even vent their frustrations to each other, but at the end of the day, they both believe that they want to accomplish the same goals, and they'll get back to that the moment things calm down." —User:MjolnirPants
  97. "If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth." —Frank Herbert
  98. "Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity." —Yoko Ono
  99. "Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so." —Erin Hunter
  100. "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." —Douglas Adams
  101. "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." —Pablo Picasso
  102. "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence..." —John Adams
  103. "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." —Paulo Freire
  104. "To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth." —Voltaire
  105. "So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause." –Padmé Amidala
  106. "Music is the universal language of mankind." —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  107. "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." —Marie Curie
  108. "Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost." –Charlie Chaplin
  109. "No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people." –Julius Nyerere
  110. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words leave psychological wounds that will never heal." –Mr. Turner, The Fairly OddParents
  111. "Comedy is acting out optimism." –Robin Williams
  112. "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." –Martin Luther King Jr.
  113. "The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’" –Brenda Howard
  114. "You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant." –Harlan Ellison
  115. "A clever person takes notice of everything; a stupid one makes a comment about everything." –Heinrich Heine
  116. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." —Albert Einstein
  117. "Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our viewpoint." –Obi-Wan Kenobi
  118. "War broke: and now the Winter of the world / With perishing great darkness closes in." –Wilfred Owen
  119. "It’s not about what you’re capable of, it’s about what you’re willing to do." –Mike Tomlin