1 Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. -A. A. Milne -A. A. Milne author (1882-1956)
2 You can tell the greatnes of a man by what makes him angry. -Abraham Lincoln -Abraham Lincoln
3 We are not enemies but friends, We must not be enemies. Through passions may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. -Abraha, Lincoln -Abraham Lincoln
4 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -Abraham Lincoln -Abraham Lincoln
5 Among angry men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. -Abraham Lincoln -Abraham Lincoln, letter (1863)
6 You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For in vernacular we Americans are suckers for good news. -Adalai E. Stevenson -Adalai E. Stevensonspeech (1958)
7 A hungry man is not a free man. -Adlai Stevenson -Adlai Stevenson statesman (5 Feb 1900-1965)
8 Corn can’t expect justice from a court composed of chickens. -African Proverb -African Proverb
9 Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. -Agatha Christie -Agatha Christie, author (15 Sep 1890-1976)
10 Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of. – Agnes Allen -Agnes Allen attributed in “Omni”
11 A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. -Alan Kay -Alan Kay, computer scientist (b. 17 May 1940)
12 I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. -Albert Camus -Albert Camus
13 The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while .- Albert Einstein -Albert Einstein in Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954)
14 The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. -Albert Einstein. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
15 All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~Albert Einstein -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
16 Logic will get you from a to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ~Albert Einstein -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
17 I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. -Albert Einstein -Albert Einstein.
18 Facts do not cease to exists because they are ignored. -Aldous Huxley -Aldous Huxley
19 Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of demons. – Aldous Huxley -Aldous Huxley ”Adonis and the Alphabet”
20 So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. - Aldous Huxley -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
21 To understand is not to forgive. It is simply better than the alternative, which is not to understand. -Alec Nove -Alec Nove, economist, author, and professor (24 Nov 1915-1994
22 I think the first duty of society is justice. -Alexander Hamilton -Alexander Hamilton
23 Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
24 Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)
25 If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? -Alexander Solzhenitsyn -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)
26 We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)
27 There are many citizens of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. -Alexis de Tocqueville-Alexis de Tocqueville
28 Given a little power over another little natures swell to hideous proportions. -Amelia Earhart -Amelia Earhart in letter to her sister Muriel (Jan. 31 1937)
29 Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned. -Anatole France -Anatole France
30 The law, in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. -Anatole France -Anatole France novelist ,essayist
31 Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. -Anatole France -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (16 Apr 1844-1924)
32 Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. -Andre Gide -Andre Gide author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)
33 t is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. -Andre Gide -Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951) 34 The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. -Andre Malraux -Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian and statesman (1901-1976)
35 No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. -Andrew Carnegie -Andrew Carnegie
36 Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. -Andrew Carnegie -Andrew Carnegie, industrialist (25 Nov 1835-1919)
37 Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.,-Andrew Young -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist , US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)
38 They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -Andy Warhol -Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
39 The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. -Ann Patchett -Ann Patchett
40 Make no judgments where you have no compassion. -Anne McCaffrey -Anne McCaffrey, writer (1 Apr 1926-2011)
41 How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard -Annie Dillard, author (b. 30 Apr 1945)
42 Pride builds walls between people. Humility builds bridges. - Anonymous -Anonymous
43 And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)
44 At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst -Aristotle -Aristotle
45 He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. -Aristotle -Aristotle
46 The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. -Arnold J. Toynbee -Arnold J. Toynbee, historian (14 Apr 1889-1975)
47 Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. -Arnold Toynbee-Arnold Toynbee historian (14 Apr 1889-1975)
48 The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent. -Arnold Toynbee-Arnold Toynbee, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)
49 The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. -Arthur C. Clarke -Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)
50 It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts. -Arthur Conan Doyle -Arthur Conan Doyle physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930)
51 It’s every man’s business to see justice done. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -Arthur Conan Doyle physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930)
52 Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. -Arthur Koestler -Arthur Koestler, novelist and journalist (1905-1983)
53 The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. -Arthur Schopenhauer -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (22 Feb 1788-1860)
54 Patience is also a form of action. -Auguste Rodin -Auguste Rodin, sculptor (12 Nov 1840-1917)
55 Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside. -Austin O’Malley Austin O’Malley
56 Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it. -Baltasar Gracian, -Baltasar Gracian, philosopher and writer (8 Jan 1601-1658)
57 It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. -Baltasar Gracian -Baltasar Gracian, philosopher and writer (8 Jan 1601-1658)
58 The power to command frequently causes failure to think. -Barbara Tuchman -Barbara Tuchmanauthor and historian (30 Jan 1912-1989)
59 A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. -Barnett Cocks -Barnett Cocks
60 When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. -Bayard Rustin -Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (17 Mar 1912-1987)
61 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -Ben Hecht -Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964)
62 Justice is truth in action. -Benjamin Disraeli -Benjamin Disraeli
63 Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. -Benjamin Franklin -Benjamin Franklin
64 Between truth and the search for truth I opt for the second. -Bernard Berenson -Bernard Berenson art historian (1865-1959)
65 Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.-Bernard Shaw -BERNARD SHAW in “Major Barbara”
66 The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors cant do it all by themselves. - Bertold Brecht -Bertold Brecht “Mother courage”
67 Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. -Bertrand Russell -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel prize in literature (1872-1970)
68 Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. -Bill Hicks -Bill Hicks, comedian and social critic (1961-1994)
69 Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo. -Bill Mauldin -Bill Mauldin, editorial cartoonist (29 Oct 1921-2003)
70 It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning. -Bill Watterson -Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (b. 5 Jul 1958)
71 You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. -Billie Holiday-Billie Holiday, jazz singer and songwriter (1915-1959)
72 Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength. -Blaise Pascal -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662)
73 Euphemism is a euphemism for lying. -Bobbie Gentry -Bobbie Gentry, singer and songwriter (b. 27 Jul 1944)
74 You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. -Booker T. Washington -Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (5 Apr 1856-1915)
75 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. – Booker T. Washington-Booker T. Washington“Up from Slavery”
76 What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. -Boris Pasternak, poet and novelist (10 Feb 1890-1960) -Boris Pasternak, poet and novelist (10 Feb 1890-1960)
77 Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. -Brian Tracy -Brian Tracy
78 thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. happiness never decreases by being shared. - buddha -buddha 79 Sometimes laughter hurts, but humor and mockery are our only weapons. -Cabu -Cabu (pen name of Jean Cabut), cartoonist and co-founder of Charlie Hebdo (13 Jan 1938-2015)
80 The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. -Carlo Dossi -Carlo Dossi, author and diplomat (1849-1910)
81 Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up but a comedy in long-shot. -Charlie Chaplin -Charlie Chaplin actor director and composer (1889-1977)
82 One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. -Chinua Achebe -Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (16 Nov 1930-2013)
83 Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life - except religion. -Christopher Hitchens -Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (13 Apr 1949-2011)
84 Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. -Christopher Hitchens -Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (1949-2011)
85 One must be very naive or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation. -Claude Levi-Strauss -Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist (28 Nov 1908-2009)
86 If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. -Claude Pepper -Claude Pepper, senator and representative (8 Sep 1900-1989)
87 A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions .-Confucius -Confucius philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)
88 Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. -Confucius -Confucius philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)
89 Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. -Coretta Scott King -Coretta Scott King
90 Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. -Cornel West -Cornel West
91 Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice. -Cornel West -Cornel West author and philosopher (b. 2 Jun 1953)
92 The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. -Cornel West -Cornel West author and philosopher (b. 2 Jun 1953)
93 Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor. -Cory Doctorow -Cory Doctorow, author and journalist (b. 17 Jul 1971)
94 One can be ignorant without being bigoted, but one can't be bigoted without being ignorant. -Dale Robert Greenley -Dale Robert Greenley, microbiologist (b. 23 Dec 1946)
95 Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept. -Dan Barker -Dan Barker, former preacher, musician (b. 25 Jun 1949)
96 Money. You don't know where it's been/ but you put it where your mouth is. / And it talks. -Dana Gioia -Dana Gioia, poet, critic, and translator (b. 1950)
97 We expect to eat and stay thin to be constantly on the move and ever so neighborly to revere god and to be god… -Daniel J. Borstin -Daniel J. Borstin “The Image”
98 There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote. -David Foster Wallace -David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist, and short story writer (21 Feb 1962-2008)
99 Many remark justice is blind; pity those in her sway, shocked to discover she is also deaf. -David Mamet -David Mamet
100 It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.-Delores Ibarruri Delores Ibarruri (speech 1936)
101 War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -Desiderius Erasmus -Desiderius Erasmus, humanist and theologian (1466-1536)
102 Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due. -Domitus Ulpian -Domitus Ulpian 103 I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it. -Dorothy Parker -Dorothy Parker
104 It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes. I can’t stand messes.-Dorothy Parker -Dorothy Parker
105 There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.-Dorothy Parker -Dorothy Parker
106 [T]ripe is tripe, even though it be served with every recommended precision of elegance.-Dorothy Parker -Dorothy Parker
107 All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams -Douglas Adams author (11 Mar 1952-2001)
108 Never give an order that can't be obeyed.-General Douglas MacArthur -Douglas MacArthur General
109 1One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)
110 Destroying rainforests for economic gain] is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. -E.O. Wilson-E.O. Wilson, biologist, naturalist, and author (b. 10 Jun 1929)
1111 Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. -Earl Warren -EarlWarrenChief Justice of the US Supreme Court (19 Mar 1891-1974)
112 Time is the fairest and toughest judge. -Edgar Quinet -Edgar Quinet, historian (17 Feb 1803-1875)
113 I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. -Edith Sitwell -Edith Sitwell, poet (7 Sep 1887-1964)
114 There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton -Edith Wharton novelist (24 Jan 1861-1937)
115 Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. -Edmund Burke -Edmund Burke
116 Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense and great expense may be an essential part in true economy. -Edmund Burke-Edmund Burke statesman and writer (1729-1797)
117 The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke -Edmund Burke statesman and writer (1729-1797)
118 Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. -Edmund Burke -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (12 Jan 1729-1797)
119 It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. -Edmund Hillary -Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer (20 Jul 1919-2008)
120 Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top. -Edward Abbey -Edward Abbey naturalist and author (1927-1989)
121 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government. -Edward Abbey -Edward Abbey naturalist and author (29 Jan 1927-1989)
122 The greatest trespasser on justice still wishes it done to him. -Edward Counsel -Edward Counsel
123 The course of justice often prevents it. -Edward Counsel -Edward Counsel
124 If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. -Edward Hopper -Edward Hopper, painter (22 Jul 1882-1967)
125 Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up at least a little bit. -Edward R. Murrow -Edward R. Murrowt least a little bit. journalist (1908-1965)
126 beautiful thing is never perfect. -Egyptian proverb Egyptian proverb
127 Well behaved women rarely make history -Eleanor Roosevelt -Eleanor Roosevelt
128 Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. -Eleanor Roosevelt-Eleanor Roosevelt 129 There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel-Elie Wiesel, writer Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
130 Ultimately the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. -Elie Wiesel-Elie Wiesel, writer Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
131 No human being is illegal. -Elie Wiesel-Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (30 Sep 1928-2016)
132 Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have. -Emile Chartier, philosopher (3 Mar 1868-1951)-Emile Chartier, philosopher (3 Mar 1868-1951)
133 Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. -Emily Post,-Emily Post, author and columnist (27 Oct 1872-1960)
134 I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. -Emo Phillips-Emo Phillips, comedian, actor (b. 7 Feb 1956)
135 Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them. -Epictetus-Epictetus
136 Is God willing to prevent evil but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -Epicurus -Epicurus philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)
137 It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently honorably and justly; or to live prudently honorably and justly without living pleasurably. -Epicurus -Epicurus philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)
138 It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. -Epicurus -Epicurus philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)
139 The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. -Eric Hoffer -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (25 Jul 1902-1983)
140 The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. -Eric Hoffer-Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (25 Jul 1902-1983)
141 If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong-Erica Jong
142 Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. -Erich Fromm -Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900
143 Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. -Erik Pepke -Erik Pepke
144 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Ernest Hemingway -Ernest Hemingway author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)
145 When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob great woes befall the state. -Euripides -Euripides, Orestes
146 There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. -Evelyn Beatrice Hall -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (28 Sep 1868-1956)
147 It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.-Evelyn Waugh, novelist (28 Oct 1903-1966)
148 Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. -Flannery O'Connor -Flannery O'Connor writer (25 Mar 1925-1964)
149 In the Soviet Union capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country capitalism triumphed over democracy. -Fran Lebowitz -Fran Lebowitz, author (b. 1950)
150 If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. -Francis Bacon -Francis Bacon
151 It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken and we do not want to be the last. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld -Francois De La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)
152 Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld -Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer (1613-1680)
153 No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country ... and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level -- I mean the wages of decent living.-Franklin D. Roosevel Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (30 Jan 1882-1945)
154 Pride like laudanum and other poisonous medicines is beneficial in small though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself even in a personal sense can please others. -Frederick Saunders-Frederick Saunders, librarian and essayist (1807-1902)
155 1It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Fredrick Douglass -Fredrick Douglass
156 One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. -Friedrich Nietzsche -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
157 The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -Friedrich Nietzsche -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
158 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche philosopher (1844-1900)
159 Honor is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall porters. -G.K. Chesterfield -G.K. Chesterfield
160 Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher (27 Aug 1770-1831)
161 All great truths begin as blasphemies. -George Bernard Shaw -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
162 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw-George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (26 Jul 1856-1950)
163 Life is not about finding yourself. Life is a out creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
164 What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. -George Bernard Shaw -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
165 Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. -George Jean Nathan -George Jean Nathan author and editor (14 Feb 1882-1958)
166 The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. -George Marshall -George Marshall, US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate (31 Dec 1880-1959)
167 Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -General George Patton -George Patton
168 There is nothing closer to selfishness than self respect. -George Sand. -George Sand.
169 A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. -Gloria Steinem -Gloria Steinem activist, editor (b. 25 Mar 1934)
170 Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. -Gloria Steinem -Gloria Steinem activist, editor (b. 25 Mar 1934)
171 Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. -Guy de Maupassant -Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (5 Aug 1850-1893)
172 Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. -Guy de Maupassan -Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (1850-1893)
173 It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. -H.L. Mencken -H.L. Mencken, “A Mencken Chrestomaty”
174 Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress even in morals has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." -H.L. Mencken -H.L. Mencken, write, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
175 Here comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. -Hartley Shawcross -Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal (4 Feb 1902-2003)
176 The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. -Havelock Ellis -Havelock Ellis, physician, writer, and social reformer (2 Feb 1859-1939)
177 Power is the great aphrodisiac. -Henry Kissinger -Henry Kissinger, quoted in the New York Times (Jan 19, 1971)
178 Justice is never so slender to us as when we first practice it. -Henry Ward Beecher -Henry Ward Beecher
179 A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road. -Henry Ward Beecher-Henry Ward Beecher preacher and writer (1813-1887)
180 Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. -Herbert Hoover -Herbert Hoover, 31st US president (10 Aug 1874-1964)
181 The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. -Herbert Hoover -Herbert Hoover, 31st US President (10 Aug 1874-1964)
182 The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people. -Herbert Hoover, -Herbert Hoover, 31st US President (10 Aug 1874-1964)
183 Reading is seeing by proxy. -Herbert Spencer -Herbert Spencer, philosopher (27 Apr 1820-1903)
184 Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow - Horance -Horace "odes"
185 In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind; but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. -Horace Walpole -Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (24 Sep 1717-1797)
186 No flag is large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. -Howard Zinn -Howard Zinn
187 Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision. -Hsi-Tang -Hsi-Tang
188 The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." - Hubert Humphrey -Hubert Humphrey, US Vice President (27 May 1911-1978)
189 There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. -Hubert Humphrey -Hubert Humphrey, US Vice President (27 May 1911-1978)
190 Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. -Hubert Humphrey -Hubert Humphrey, US Vice President (27 May 1911-1978)
191 Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish) but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. -Igor Stravinsky-Igor Stravinsky, composer (17 Jun 1882-1971)
192 People who don’t expect justice don’t have to suffer disappointment. -Isaac Asimov -Isaac Asimov scientist and writer (2 Jan 1920-1992)
193 Your assumptions are your windows on the word. scrub them of every once in a while or the light won't come in. -Isaac Asimov -Isaac Asimov scientist and writer (2 Jan 1920-1992)
194 Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. -Isaac Asimov -Isaac Asimov scientist and writer (2 Jan 1920-1992)
195 There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -Isaac Asimov -Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
196 Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep. -Isaiah Berlin -Isaiah Berlin
197 In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. -Ivan Illich, -Ivan Illich, philosopher and priest (4 Sep 1926-2002)
198 The truth will make you free, but first it will make you miserable. -James A. Garfield -James A. Garfield
199 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.-James Baldwin -James Baldwin
200 I love America more than Any other Country in the world, and for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. -James Baldwin -James Baldwin
201 I don't think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won't even accept these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they don't even apply to what, in actual fact, modern warfare has become. -James Jones -James Jones, novelist (6 Nov 1921-1977)
202 Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? -James Madison -James Madison, 4th US president (16 Mar 1751-1836)
203 I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the rights of the people by the gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. -James Madison, fourth US president (16 Mar 1751-1836) -James Madison, fourth US president (16 Mar 1751-1836)
204 No amount of belief makes something a fact .-James Randi -James Randi, magician and skeptic (b. 1928)
205 Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason. -James Randi -James Randi, magician and skeptic (b. 7 Aug 1928)
206 True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. -Jane Addams -Jane Addams
207 1One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -Jane Austen -Jane Austen, novelist (1775-1817)
208 Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. -Japanese proverb -Japanese proverb
209 Extreme justice is often injustice. -Jean Racine -Jean Racine
210 For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. -Jello Biafra -Jello Biafra musician (b. 1958)
211 In religion faith is a virtue. In science faith is a vice. -Jerry Coyne -Jerry Coyne biology professor (b. 30 Dec 1949)
212 The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. -Jerry Rubin -Jerry Rubin, activist and author (14 Jul 1938-1994)
213 A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. -Jerry Seinfeld -Jerry Seinfeld, comedian (b. 29 Apr 1954)
214 You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. -Jessica Mitford -Jessica Mitford, author, journalist, and civil rights activist (11 Sep 1917-1996)
215 A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. -Jimmy Carter, 39th US President, Nobel laureate (b. 1 Oct 1924)-Jimmy Carter, 39th US President, Nobel laureate (b. 1 Oct 1924)
216 Our nation is shaped by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses. It is time for our better angels to prevail. -Joe Biden -Joe Biden, 46th US President (b. 20 Nov 1942)
217 I believe at our best America is a beacon for the globe. And we lead not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. -Joe Biden, -Joe Biden, president-elect of the United States (b. 20 Nov 1942)
218 There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832)
219 Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. -John C. Maxwell-John C. Maxwell
220 Errors like straws upon the surface flow: / Who would search for pearls must dive below. -John Dryden -John Dryden poet and dramatist (1631-1700)
221 Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. -John F. Kennedy -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)
222 We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -John F. Kennedy -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)
223 The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. -John Galsworthy -John Galsworthy, author, Nobel laureate (14 Aug 1867-1933)
224 Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us. -John Irving -John Irving, novelist (b. 2 Mar 1942)
225 To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. -John Leonard, -John Leonard, critic (25 Feb 1939-2008)
226 A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. -John Locke -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)
227 The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -John Locke -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)
228 A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. -John Maxwell -John Maxwell
229 The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. -John Milton -John Milton, poet (9 Dec 1608-1674) 230 Revenge, at first though sweet Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. –John Milton -John Milton, poet (9 Dec 1608-1674)
231 You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -John Morley -John Morley, statesman and writer (24 Dec 1838-1923)
232 If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. -John Quincy Adams -John Quincy Adams
233 When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. -John Ruskin -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (8 Feb 1819-1900)
234 In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. -John Ruskin -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (8 Feb 1819-1900)
235 “Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold they can no longer be worn.” -John Updike -John Updike
236 Life is though, but it is tougher if you are stupid. -John Wayne -John Wayne "in league of their own"
237 Sacrifice all to the Moloch of convenience and you might end up on the altar too. -Jon Talton -Jon Talton; The Seattle Times (Washington); Dec 7
238 Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world and that so very few are offended with it. -Jonathan Swift -Jonathan Swift satirist (1667-1745)
239 Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. -Jonathan Swift -Jonathan Swift, satirist (30 Nov 1667-1745)
240 If what you are getting online is for free you are not the customer you are the product. -Jonathan Zittrain -Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet law (b. 1969)
241 There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. -Joseph Addison -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)
242 A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. Joseph Addison -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)
243 To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.-Joseph Chilton Pearce. -Joseph Chilton Pearce
244 A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -Joseph Conrad -Joseph Conrad, novelist (3 Dec 1857-1924)
245 One death is a tragedy; Million deaths is a statistic. –Joseph Stalin -Joseph Stalin
246 Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog. -Josh Billings -Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885)
247 It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.-Julie Burchil -Julie Burchil writer and journalist (b. 1959)
248 Ameasure of Justice is not the same thing as equal justice. -Kamala Harris -Kamala Harris US VP
249 All that separates whether of race class creed or sex is inhuman and must be overcome.and must be overcome. -Kate Sheppard -Kate Sheppard, suffragist (10 Mar 1847-1934)
250 In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. -Kathleen Norris, novelist and columnist (1880-1966) -Kathleen Norris, novelist and columnist (1880-1966)
251 The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. -Kenneth Blanchard -Kenneth Blanchard
252 How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. -Kenneth Tynan -Kenneth Tynan, theater critic and author (2 Apr 1927-1980)
253 The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. -Kin Hubbard -Kin Hubbard, humorist (1 Sep 1868-1930)
254 Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it. -Kin Hubbard -Kin Hubbard, humorist (1 Sep 1868-1930)
255 Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. -Kinky Friedman: -Kinky Friedman
256 Old people like to give a good advice, as a solace for no longer being able to provide a bad example. - La Rochefould-La Rochefould, " Maxims"
257 There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world. -Lady Marguerite Blessington -Lady Marguerite Blessington, writer (4 Apr 1789-1849)
258 But the fruit that can fall without shaking, / Indeed is too mellow for me. -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, author (26 May 1689-1762)
259 A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. —Lao Tzu -Lao Tzu
260 It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. -Latin Proverb -Latin Proverb
261 There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few. -Lawrence Lessig -Lawrence Lessig, professor and political activist (b. 3 Jun 1961)
262 Writing' is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound. -Lawrence Lessig -Lawrence Lessig, professor and political activist (b. 3 Jun 1961)
263 The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. -Learned Hand -Learned Hand, jurist (27 Jan 1872-1961)
264 Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts. -Leo Rosten -Leo Rosten, author (1908-1997)
265 Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoy -Leo Tolstoy
266 The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain. -Leo Tolstoy -Leo Tolstoy novelist and philosopher (1828-1910) 267 Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. –Leonardo da Vinci -Leonardo da Vinci
268 Learning never exhausts the mind. -Leonardo da Vinci -Leonardo da Vinci
269 There are things that are not salable. That's why we have art.-Leonora Carrington
-Leonora Carrington
270 The trouble with rat race is that if you win you are still a rat. -Lily Tomlin -Lily Tomlin, actress (b. 1 Sept 1939)
271 When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. -Lin Yutang -Lin Yutang
272 The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. -Linus Pauling -Linus Pauling, chemist, peace activist, author, educator; Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Peace Prize (1901-1994)
273 To be patriotic hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretences but your own. -Lionel Strachey -Lionel Strachey writer and translator (1864-1927)
274 There is this. You can’t ever run away from one thing without running toward something else. -Lois McMaster Bujold -Lois McMaster Bujold writer
275 Sometimes it isn’t about having the right answers. It is about asking the right questions.” - Lois McMaster Bujold -Lois McMaster Bujold writer
276 There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. - Lois McMaster Bujold -Lois McMaster Bujold writer
277 If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? -Lois McMaster Bujold -Lois McMaster Bujold writer (1949- )
278 The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. -Lord Acton -Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton) historian (1834-1902)
279 The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. -Lord Acton -Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton), historian (1834-1902)
280 Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. -Lord Acton -Lord Acton, historian (10 Jan 1834-1902)
281 Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure. Men Love in haste but they detest at pleasure. -Lord Byron -Lord Byron “Don Juan”
282 The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. -Louis de Bernieres -Louis de Bernieres, novelist (b. 8 Dec 1954)
283 Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. -Louis L'Amour -Louis L'Amour, novelist (22 Mar 1908-1988)
284 If I can do no more let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. -Louisa May Alcott -Louisa May Alcott writer and reformist (29 Nov 1832-1888)
285 Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice. -Lydia Maria Child -Lydia Maria Child
286 You aren't learning anything when you're talking. -Lyndon B, Johnson -Lyndon B, Johnson
287 Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. -Lyndon B, Johnson -Lyndon B, Johnson
288 Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. -Madame de Stael -Madame de Stael writer (1766-1817)
289 Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. -Madame De Stael -Madame De Stael writer (22 Apr 1766-1817)
290 The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. -Madame De Stael -Madame De Stael writer (22 Apr 1766-1817)
291 We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. -Madame De Stael -Madame De Stael, writer (22 Apr 1766-1817)
292 People of small caliber like to sit on high horses. -Magdalena Samozwaniec -Magdalena Samozwaniec, writer (1894-1972)
293 Terrorists had shown what frightens them the most: A girl with a book. -Malala Yousafzai -Malala Yousafzai
294 Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a paintingnor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully politely plainly and modestly. – Mao Tse-tung -Mao Tse-tung quoted in “Time”
295 Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just -Marcus Aurelius -Marcus Aurelius
296 Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. -Marcus Tullius Cicero -Marcus Tullius Cicero
297 The foundation of justice is good faith. -Cicero-Marcus Tullius Cicero -Cicero-Marcus Tullius Cicero
298 Never pray for justice, because you might get some. -Margaret Atwood -Margaret Atwood
299 In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. -Margaret Halsey -Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997)
300 No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. -Margaret Mead-Margaret Mead, anthropologist (16 Dec 1901-1978)
301 Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. -Marian Anderson -Marian Anderson, singer (27 Feb 1897-1993)
302 the art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. -Mark van Dore -Mark Van Dore
303 Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. -Martin Amis -Martin Amis, novelist (b. 25 Aug 1949)
304 If the law is unjust, you have a duty not to obey the law. -Marin Luther King Martin Luther King
305 Only in darkness can you see the stars. -Martin Luther King. -Martin Luther King Jr.,
306 Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -Martin Luther King, Jr. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
307 We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor. -Martin Luther King -Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (15 Jan 1929-1968)
308 The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. -Mary Wollstonecraft -Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (1759-1797)
309 We all have to rise in the end not just one or two who were smart enough had will enough for their own salvation but all the halt the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us. -Maureen Duffy -Maureen Duffy poet playwright and novelist (b. 1933)
310 It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.-Max Eastman -Max Eastman, journalist and poet (4 Jan 1883-1969)
311 A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. -Max Lucado -Max Lucado
312 A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. -Max Planck -Max Planck, theoretical physicist
313 If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. -Maya Angelou -Maya Angelou
314 He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. -Michel De Montaigne -Michel De Montaigne essayist (28 Feb 1533-1592)
315 Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. -Michel de Montaigne -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
316 It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others. -Michel de Montaigne -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (28 Feb 1533-1592)
317 A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain. -Mildred Witte Stouven -Mildred Witte Stouven
318 Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
319 When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948)
320 It is not what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable. -Moliere -Moliere, actor and playwright (15 Jan 1622-1673)
321 If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -Moshe Dayan -Moshe Dayan, military leader and politician (1915-1981)
322 alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.-Mother Teresa -Mother Teresa
323 The truth isn't always beauty but the hunger for it is. -Nadine Gordimer -Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (20 Nov 1923-2014)
324 We do not antagonize, we organize. -Nancy Pelosi -Nancy Pelosi
325 When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. -Napoleon Bonaparte -Napoleon Bonaparte
326 A leader is a dealer in hope. -Napoleon Bonaparte -Napoleon Bonaparte
327 The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked. -Napoleon Hill -Napoleon Hill, author (1883-1970)
328 The nice things about science is that it'strue whether you believe it or not. -Neil deGrasse Tyson -Neil deGrasse Tyson
329 Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.-Nelson Mandela -Nelson Mandela
330 It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious. -Niccolo Machiavelli -Niccolo Machiavelli, political philosopher and author (3 May 1469-1527)
331 Science does correct itself and that's the reason why science is such a glorious thing for our species. -Nigel Calder -Nigel Calder, science writer (2 Dec 1931-2014)
332 Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. -Noam Chomsky -Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist (b. 7 Dec 1928)
333 History is a vast early warning system. -Norman Cousins -Norman Cousins editor and author (24 Jun 1915-1990)
334 Literature encourages tolerance -- bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities. -Northrop Frye -Northrop Frye, writer and critic (14 Jul 1912-1991)
335 A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. -O. Henry -O. Henry, short-story writer (11 Sep 1862-1910)
336 There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. -Ogden Nash -Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)
337 The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. -Oprah Winfrey -Oprah Winfrey
338 Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -Oscar Wilde, writer -Oscar Wilde, writer (16 Oct 1854-1900)
339 Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -Oscar Wilde -Oscar Wilde, writer (16 Oct 1854-1900)
340 When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. -Otto von Bismarck -Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898)
341 A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. -Ovid -Ovid
342 What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. -P.D. James, novelist -P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)
343 Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. -Pablo Picasso -Pablo Picasso Artist (1881-1973)
344 There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. -Paul Bourget -Paul Bourget, novelist (2 Sep 1852-1935)
345 Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view. -Paul Klee -Paul Klee, painter (18 Dec 1879-1940)
346 Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. -Paul Valéry -Paul Valéry "Tel quel"
347 Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren’t. -Peter Carr -Peter Carr an American Teamster’s Union official quoted in Newsweek (Sep. 27 1976)
348 The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves. -P.D. James -P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)
349 So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. -Peter Drucker -Peter Drucker 350 One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it. -Peter Drucker -Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (19 Nov 1909-2005)
351 Reality is that which when you stop believing in it doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick -Philip K. Dick science fiction writer (16 Dec 1928-1982)
352 Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. -Lord Chesterfield -Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
353 Without the freedom to criticize there is no true praise. -Pierre Beaumarchais -Pierre Beaumarchais playwright (1732-1799)
354 I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace. -Pierre Trudeau -Pierre Trudeau
355 A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. -Ovid -Ovid-Polybius
356 Fairness is what justice really is. -Potter Stewart -Potter Stewart 357 Trust is the first step to love. -Premchand -Premchand, novelist and poet (31 Jul 1880-1936)
358 The arrow has to draw back to fly ahead. -Proverb -Proverb
359 The best way I know of how to win an argument is to start by being in the right. -Quintin McGarel Hogg -Quintin McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham, in “The New York Times”
360 Truth does not burn in sunlight - Rainbow Rowen - Rainbow Rowen writer
361 I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. -Rainer Maria Rilke -Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist (1875-1926)
362 I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. -Ralph Nader -Ralph Nader
363 Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. -Ralph Waldo Emerson -Ralph Waldo Emerson “Demonology” in Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)
364 You shall have joy or you shall have power said God; you shall not have both. -Ralph Waldo Emerson -Ralph Waldo Emerson journal entry (Oct. 1842)
365 Good men must not obey the laws too well. -Ralph Waldo Emerson -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
366 Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. -Ray Bradbury -Ray Bradbury writer (1920-2012)
367 Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. -Richard Ben Sapir -Richard Ben Sapir novelist (1936-1987)“Let us stand now
368 When one guy sees an invisible man, he's a nut case; ten people see him, it's a cult; ten million people see him, it's a respected religion. -Richard Jeni -Richard Jeni comedian and actor (1957-2007)
369 Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. -Richard Steele, author and editor (12 Mar 1672-1729) -Richard Steele, author and editor (12 Mar 1672-1729)
370 If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers, and scientists are keeping society together. -Rita Dove, -Rita Dove, poet (b. 28 Aug 1952)
371 A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill .-Robert A. Heinlein -Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (7 Jul 1907-1988)
372 Everyone has a belief system, B.S., the trick is to learn not to take anyone's B.S. too seriously, especially your own.-Robert Anton Wilson -Robert Anton Wilson, novelist (18 Jan 1932-2007)
373 A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. -Robert Brault -Robert Brault
374 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -Robert Frost -Robert Frost
375There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. -Robert Graves -Robert Graves, poet and novelist (24 Jul 1895-1985)
376 The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. -Robert Green Ingersol -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899)
377 We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us. -Robert Hayden -Robert Hayden, poet and educator (1913-1980)
378 The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. -Roger Ebert -Roger Ebert, film-critic (18 Jun 1942-2013)
379 I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. -Romain Rolland -Romain Rolland, writer, Nobel laureate (29 Jan 1866-1944)
380 The will of the majority must be the only king; the ballot-box must be the only throne. -Roscoe Conklin -Roscoe Conkling, 1865, as the flamboyant New York boss 381 We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it, chopped down its forests, leveled its hills, muddied its waters, and dirtied its air. That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago. -Rose Bird, -Rose Bird, Chief Justice of California Supreme Court (2 Nov 1936-1999)
382 Where one stands on an issue depends on where one sits. -Rufus E. Miles -Rufus E. MilesJr. (1910-1996)
383 Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. -Rumi -Rumi
384 What is important is to spread confusion. Not to eliminate it. -Salvador Dali -Salvador Dali
385 Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. -Samuel Butler, writer (4 Dec 1835-1902) -Samuel Butler, writer (4 Dec 1835-1902)
386 There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. - Samuel Johnson -Samuel Johnson, “The Rambler”
387 A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. -Samuel Johnson -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
388 Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -Samuel Johnson -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (18 Sep 1709-1784)
389 Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations. Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true. Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of One or All. That which will not bend must break, and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. It is Done. Hail Satan.”-Satanist temple invocation to city council -Satanist temple invocation to city council
390 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -Saul Bellow -Saul Bellow writer Nobel laureate (1915-2005)
391 If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction. -Scott Turow -Scott Turow, author and lawyer (b. 12 Apr 1949)
392 It's my rule never to lose my temper till it would be detrimental to keep it. -Sean O'Casey -Sean O'Casey, playwright (30 Mar 1880-1964)
393 He who has great power should use it lightly.-Seneca Seneca
394 Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality. -Sheri S. Tepper, novelist -Sheri S. Tepper, novelist (16 Jul 1929-2016)
395 I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth -- and truth rewarded me.-Simone de Beauvoir -Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)
396 truth is powerful and it prevails.-sogurner truth -sogurner truth
397 Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life. -Sophia Loren -Sophia Loren, actress (b. 1934)
398 An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. -Spanish proverb -Spanish proverb
399 What you do has far greater impact than what you say. -Stephen Covey -Stephen Covey
400 The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best and therefore never scrutinize or question. -Stephen Jay Gould -Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, biologist, author (1941-2002)
401 A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. -Stephen King -Stephen King
402 Good books don't give up all their secrets at once. -Stephen King, novelist -Stephen King, novelist (b. 21 Sep 1947)
403 I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -Susan B Anthony -Susan B Anthony reformer and suffragist (1820-1906)
404 Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. -Susan Sontag -Susan Sontagauthor and critic (1933-2004)
405 Goethe was wrong; there is one thing more terrible than imagination without taste, and that is power without intelligence. -Sydney J. Harris -Sydney J. Harris in For the Time Being (1972)
406 Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity. -Sydney J. Harris -Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)
407 Sometimes I think that vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff nature repalces it with. -Tenessee Williams -Tenessee Williams
408 Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. -Terry Goodkind -Terry Goodkind
409 The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it. - Terry Pratchett -Terry Pratchett (Monstrous regiment)
410 The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. -Theodore Parker -Theodore Parker
411 In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson -Thomas Jefferson
412 There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. -Thomas Jefferson -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect, and author (13 Apr 1743-1826)
413 It is easier to change a system than to change yourself. - Thomas Lloyd -Thomas Lloyd student (TED talk Georgetown University 2020)
414 My country is the world and my religion is to do good. -Thomas Paine -Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (9 Feb 1737-1809)
415 it is not in numbers that our great strength lies, but in unity, - Thomas Paine -Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (9 Feb 1737-1809)
416 If they can get you asking the wrong questions they don't have to worry about the answers. -Thomas Pynchon -Thomas Pynchon, novelist (b. 8 May 1937)
417 Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. -Thomas Szasz -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (15 Apr 1920-2012)
418 We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that buried its head in the sand waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education, or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and timeless absence of moral leadership. We must dissent, because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. -Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (2 Jul 1908-1993) -Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (2 Jul 1908-1993)
419 Think for yourself and question authority-Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary, psychologist and writer (22 Oct 1920-1996)
420 A cult is a religion with no political power. -Tom Wolfe -Tom Wolfe, author and journalist (b. 1931)
421 Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge. -Unknown-Unknown
422 Politics is an area of human endeavor that places greater stress on moral sensitivity, on the ability to reflect critically on oneself, on genuine responsibility, on taste and tact, on the capacity to empathize with others, on a sense of moderation .-Vaclav Havel -Vaclav Havel, playwright, political prisoner, President of Czech republic
423 Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. -Vaclav Havel -Vaclav Havel, writer, Czech Republic president (5 Oct 1936-2011)
424 Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance. -Verna Myers -Verna Myers, author and speaker (b. 5 Apr 1960)
425 Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of great government. -Victor Hugo -Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)
426 What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl -Viktor Frankl author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)
427 For most of history anonymous was a woman. -Virginia Wolf -Virginia Wolf
428 I have decided to be happy because it is good for my health. -Voltaire -Voltaire
429 To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -Voltaire -Voltaire philosopher (1694-1778)
430 Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you comit atrocities. -Voltaire -Voltaire philosopher (1694-1778)
431 The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience. -W.E.B. Du Bois -W.E.B. Du Bois, educator, civil rights activist, and writer (23 Feb 1868-1963)
432 I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return. -W.H. Auden -W.H. Auden poet (21 Feb 1907-1973) poet (21 Feb 1907-1973)
433 I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. -Walt Disney, -Walt Disney entrepreneur and animator (5 Dec 1901-1966)
434 Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. -Walt Disney -Walt Disney entrepreneur and animator (5 Dec 1901-1966)
435 Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.-Warren Bennis -Warren Bennis
436 Education is the mother of leadership. -Wendell Willkie -Wendell Willkie
437 The worst kind of people are those who confuse kindness for weakness. -Werner Makowski -Werner Makowski, banker (b. 1929)
438 Power dements even more than it corrupts. -Will & Ariel Durant -Will & Ariel Durantin The Age of Napoleon Volume 11 of The Story of Civilization (1975)
439 A king can stand people fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. - will rogers -Will Rogers, humorist (4 Nov 1879-1935)
440 Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. -Will Rogers -Will Rogers, humorist (4 Nov 1879-1935)
441 Justice delayed is justice denied. -William E. Gladstone -William E. Gladstone
442 It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. -William Ellery Channing -William Ellery Channing, clergyman and writer (7 Apr 1780-1842)
443 One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. -William Feather -William Feather, author, editor and publisher (1889-1981)
444 The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. -William Hazlitt -William Hazlit, “The Times Newspaper” in The Examiner (Jan. 12 1817); reprinted in Political Essays (1819)
445 The garb of religion is the best cloak for power. -William Hazlitt -William Hazlitt “On the Clerical Character” Political Essays (1819)
446 It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. -William Kingdon Clifford -William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and philosopher(4 May 1845-1879)
447 Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -William Pitt -William Pitt, British prime minister (28 May 1759-1806)
448 Love all, trust a few do wrong to none. -William Shakespeare -William Shakespeare playwright and poet (1564-1616)
449 Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. -William Shenstone -William Shenstone, poet (18 Nov 1714-1763)
450 We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security. -William Sloane Coffin -William Sloane Coffin
451 War does not determine who is right - only who is left. -Winston Churchil -Winston Churchill 1874-1955
452 The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.-Winston Churchil -Sir Winston Churchill -Winston Churchill
453 Dictators ride to and fro on the backs of tigers from which they dare not to dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. -Wiston Churchill -Winston Churchill "while England slept" 1938
454 Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. -Woodrow Wilson -Woodrow Wilson
455 The lion and the calf shall lie together but the calf is not going to get much sleep. -Woody Allen -Woody Allen in “Without Feathers”
456 I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strengthen them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander. -Yehuda Bauer -Yehuda Bauer, professor (b. 1926)
457 "learn to be calm and you will always be happy" - yogananda -yogananda
458 If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. –Mark Twain –Mark Twain
459 Never regret anything that made you smile. –Mark Twain –Mark Twain
460 The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom, which cannot exist without each other.-150 Writers, journalist, historians and other academics
461 So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox -Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (5 Nov 1850-1919)