What is everyones favorite Quote?

[Dash]

Originally Posted by Lydia

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library -
Jorge Luis Borges

OMG! Do you know Borges, Lydia?! He's my fave!!! Absolutely BRILLIANT writer!

[Lydia]

I've read some of his stuff, yeah.

[tdogg]

Can't say its my favorite - but definitely interesting. Came across this one the other day and thought I'd share:

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw

I like it! Maybe being 'reasonable' isn't an answer to get equality?

[BruceChris]

"Good times have ruined more men than bad" -- Unknown

Could be the epitaph for our time. Also,

"Poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth". -- The

recent Ann Richards, former governor of Texas.

"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich" -- Peter Ustinov

P&L, Bruce Chris

[Vanessa White]

I don't know if she was ever an open ally to LGBT persons, but she always struck me as someone who could be. I have felt a loss over her death this week.....

[BruceChris]

Unknown Black jazz musician, who lived to be 104, on his 100th birthday: "If I had known that I was going to live this long, I'd-a taken better care of myself"

[kimmyd]

I think my least favorite (I don't have any favorites) is 'The apple doesn't fall far from the tree'.

I feel like when people say that it doesn't give anyone a fair shot at proving otherwise.

[kimmyd]

Dash,


I love the saying at the bottom of your name--"There's no law against love."

I think maybe that might be my favorite now.

And it is so true.

[BruceChris]

"President George Bush is the devil, and he thinks that he owns the world" -- Venezuelan President Hugo Cha'vez.

No Comment, Bruce Chris

[angeleyes]

i would have to say......to thy own self be true......and also....live today like it's your last day,because life is too short.......

[BruceChris]

From a number of feminists that I have met: "I find myself hetrosexual below the neck, but lesbian from the neck up".

P&L, Chris

[zimnah]

I am decidedly nonviolent, but have always liked "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" by an unnamed chaplain during World War II.

--Dawn

[faital]

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[Giancarlo]

In my signature... Robert Kennedy is the only Kennedy I actually like..

By the way, I can apply my signature to Bush and Chavez. I actually despise Chavez more because I've been to Venezuela and I have seen what he has done to his people. He has brutalized them. Luckily a potent opposition figure is emerging by the name of Rosales...

[1engelbythesea]

I love to collect quotes. Here is my contribution of the day.

Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. -Ludwig Feuerbach, philosopher (1804-1872)

[ladyinred]

I love quotes as well. Already posted quite a few on the faith and nonviolence forum:"The birth of an idea in your mind and the birth of a celestial star in distant space-- both arise from the same latent field of cosmic energy."
"Hold fast to your dreams.Never let the enemy of self-doubt destroy them."
"The lotus Sutra, the ancient teaching that all people have enlightenment within them and are essentially equals, is a radical teaching. If it were not, then racial, sexual, and age discrimination,not to mention violence, terrorism and war, would not exist."
"Misfortune comes from one's mouth and ruins one, but fortune comes from one's heart and makes one worthy of respect." Nichiren
"True creativity enhances one's existance and contributes to the well-being of others under all circumstances."
"Simplicity is something difficult for a confused mind to understand."
"In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous,In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life be completely present."
"Enlightened parenting means bringing up children without ever putting them down" (I'm a parent by the way....ok not one quote but a few to think on...lol

[ladyinred]

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government… The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.



– Thomas Jefferson-------


Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

– Frederick Douglous-------


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 …The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. … Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

--John F.Kennedy



The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

– Mark Twain

[kara speltz]

I have a number of them that really get to me. I've picked out some of the ones that make me struggle the most. So here goes, in no particular order:

Gandi has so many, it's hard to pick just one, but I guess, my favorite Gandhi is: "We must become the change we seek."

Merton has a number I find truly inspirational, my favorite being.
"The goal of the spiritual life is not the elimination of struggle but the sanctification of struggle."

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop
at the border?"
-- Pablo Casals


"I love the Bible too much to take it literally." To do so is to
select those passages which fit one's beliefs, not those which challenge one to grow in understanding. It is to use the Bible to keep one from making the changes God seeks in our lives." Karl Barth


Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.- Andre Gide



"A Church that doesn't provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone's skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of society in which it is being proclaimed, what gospel is that?" Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980)

[Gerald Farinas]

For four years now, I've been using the same quote on my blog profile. It's from Romeo and Juliet, "When he shall die take him and cut him out into little stars and he shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun." I want someone to promise me they'll read that one over my grave! I also like the quote I'm using for my signature on this forum. It's from the late Patsy Mink, a Congresswoman from the Second Congressional District of Hawaii. She was the one who wrote the Title IX gender equity in education law.

[evangelicalhumanist]

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke