- “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. … whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
- Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively.”
- “Even though morality cannot be legislated, behavior can be regulated. While the law cannot change the heart, it can certainly restrain the heartless.
~Martin Luther King Jr.
- “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
- “Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern.”
- “More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere.”
- “Life is immediate.”
- “When it was all over he felt like a man who had been thrown from a cliff, whirled in a centrifuge, and spat out over a waterfall that fell and fell into emptiness and emptiness and never – quite – touched – bottom – never – never …”
- “The word ‘intellectual’, of course, became the swear word.”
- “A book is a loaded gun.”
- “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there are such things as war…”
- “Don’t let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.”
- “… The wrong kind of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches. And the gardens, too. Not many gardens to sit around anymore. And look at the furniture. No rocking chairs anymore. They’re too comfortable. Get people up and running around…”
- “Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world is so poor and we just don’t care if they are?”
- “I don’t talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive.”
- “Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she’s listening to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”
- “It would be funny if it were not serious. It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books.”
- “No, no, it’s not books at all you’re looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old photograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptable where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget.”
- “The televisor is ‘real’. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn’t time to protest, ‘What nonsense!”
- “The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.”
- “Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”
- “Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for a shore.”
~Ray Bradbury (‘Fahrenheit 451′)
- “If you’re stuck with something, try to make the best of it.”
- “The drug route ends in a blind alley.”
- “Life cannot be lived freely and abundantly when it is in daily, even hourly fear of extinction.”
- “The greatest gift to life is removal of the fear of death.”
- “knowing the evil in oneself equips one to recognize it elsewhere and take appropriate steps.”
- “Anyone who approaches the adventure with honesty, with good will, with hope and with some comprehension of his own limitations, will not come to harm through it.”
- “Materialistic science can do so much than man tends to leap in the conclusion that it can do anything.”
- “I suppose every conscientious workman has that bit of perfectionist in him that prevents him from ever being satisfied.”
- “Extreme dependency of any kind is generally recognized as a restricting influence on character development.”
- “We are far more painfully aware of our shortcomings than any of our critics could possibly be – we know the difficulties firsthand.”
- “There is marked improvement in the ability to handle defeat.”
- “The thing that heals is simply the truth.”
- “The death of someone with whom we had been long and closely associated leaves a vacuum in our lives that sometimes seems almost intolerable.”
~Arthur Ford (‘Unknown But Known‘)
- “Learning without thought is a labor lost; thought without labor is perilous.”
~ Confucius (Analects)
- “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people”
~ Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler
- “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
- “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t matter.”
~ Dr. Seuss
- “Once a man receives this fixed bodily form, he holds on to it, waiting for the end. Sometimes clashing with things, sometimes bending before them, he runs his course like a galloping steed, and nothing can stop him. Is he not pathetic?”
- “Your life has a limit but knowledge has one. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.”
- “Follow the middle; go by what is constant, and you can stay in one piece, keep yourself alive, look after your parents, and live out your years.”
- “Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome. In sleep, men’s spirits do visiting; in waking hours, their bodies hustle. With everything they meet, they become entangled. Day after day they use their minds in strife, sometimes grandiose, sometimes sly, sometimes petty. Their little fears are mean and trembly; their great fears are stunned and overwhelming.”
~ Chuang Tzu (‘The Secret of Caring for Life’)
- “Knowledge is the beginning of action and action is the completion of knowledge… Knowledge and action should not be separated.”
- “The mind is the master of the body. Knowledge is the intelligence of the mind. The will is knowledge in operation. And a thing is that to which the will is directed. Is this correct?”
~ Wang Yang-Ming (‘Dynamic Idealism’)
