Let us try what love will do.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided
Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.
Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.
A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Eat therefore to live, and do not live to eat.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing –to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.
That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
