posted April 19, 2008 03:36 PM              

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

posted April 26, 2008 11:13 PM            

~ George Bernard Shaw

posted April 27, 2008 01:14 PM              

Light Quotes

posted May 02, 2008 04:51 PM              

"Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."
Plato

"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."
Albert Camus

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
Carl Jung

"Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here."
Karrie Webb

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. "
Isadora Duncan

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
Elbert Hubbard

"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."
Lao Tzu

"If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both."
Bodhidharma

I really love these.

posted May 02, 2008 05:33 PM            

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor;
it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me,
but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and, when they fail in this purpose,
they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension.
We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere... Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

When you are right you cannot be too radical;
when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

posted May 03, 2008 12:43 PM            

~ some guy on television