"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote Help: looking for a quote from Camus, The Plague, about humanity's implacable faith in the near future (if I remember correctly, the context is how the townspeople refuse to accept that everything is about to change). I knew when I read it I should have written it down!
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. ― Abraham Lincoln
“Maybe if we underpaid politicians and overpaid teachers, there would be smarter people and less stupid laws.” ― Morgan Freeman
"The miracle is not that I can speak. It is that you would ever listen!" In Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo Del Toro
" I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a custome party and I attended with my real face" - Franz Kafka
“dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus” “nowadays wealth comes to no one but the rich.”
— Martial
— Martial
“My heart is too valuable to allow hatred and jealousy to rent a spot.” ― Mufti Ismail Menk
"The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over" - Hunter S Thompson
“People don’t ruin their lives by accident; they do it through the tiny excuses they repeat until they become truth.”
Aummptions can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. -Marshall McLuhan
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." ~ Frank Herbert, Dune
“If a fool speaks to you, do not answer him, for the best answer is silence. If you speak to him, you have delighted him. If you leave him, he nearly dies in anguish.” ― Imam al-Shafi’i
“If you should find yourself in a group of friends who are all united under a cause that makes them miserable, then losing those friends wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing. The wrong friends can make you lonelier than being alone.” -Jason Pargin in I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? —Charles Bukowski
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle - Martin Luther King Jr, others
“I judge you unfortunate because you have never been unfortunate; you have passed through life without an antagonist” - Seneca, On Providence (De Providentia) 4.3